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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Databricks vs. Firebase Realtime Database

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Name

Description

MaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousing

The 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-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tables

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store

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Score	0.78
Rank	#221	Overall
	#102	Relational DBMS

Score	76.33
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	15.00
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

www.databricks.com

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

docs.databricks.com

firebase.google.com/docs/database

Developer

Alibaba

Databricks

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Initial release

2016

2013

2012

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Server operating systems

hosted

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

with Databricks SQL

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

Python
R
Scala

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

user defined functions and aggregates

limited functionality with using 'rules'

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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