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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Coveo vs. Databricks vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. LeanXcale

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonCoveo  Xexclude from comparisonDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonLeanXcale  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingAI-powered hosted search, recommendation and personalization platform providing tools for both low-code and full-code developmentThe Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses to provide a unified view onto structured and unstructured data. It is based on Apache Spark.Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesSearch engineDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.77
Rank#214  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#114  Overall
#11  Search engines
Score78.61
Rank#15  Overall
#2  Document stores
#10  Relational DBMS
Score7.85
Rank#51  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score0.29
Rank#291  Overall
#41  Key-value stores
#132  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputewww.coveo.comwww.databricks.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorewww.leanxcale.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputedocs.coveo.comdocs.databricks.comfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestore
DeveloperAlibabaCoveoDatabricksGoogleLeanXcale
Initial release20162012201320172015
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesyesyesno
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Server operating systemshostedhostedhostedhosted
Data schemeyeshybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configurationFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenowith Databricks SQLnoyes infothrough Apache Derby
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector
Supported programming languagesJavaC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Python
R
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
C
Java
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javanouser defined functions and aggregatesyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions
Triggersnoyesyes, with Cloud Functions
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesyesMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoUsing Cloud Dataflowno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesACIDyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesgranular access controls, API key management, content filtersAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.
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Alibaba Cloud MaxComputeCoveoDatabricksGoogle Cloud FirestoreLeanXcale
Specific characteristicsSupported database models : In addition to the Document store and Relational DBMS...
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