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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Datomic vs. Firebird vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.77
Rank#214  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score4.25
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputewww.datomic.comwww.firebirdsql.orgwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.html
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputedocs.datomic.comwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere
DeveloperAlibabaCognitectFirebird FoundationSAP infoformerly Sybase
Initial release201620122000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase1992
Current release1.0.6735, June 20235.0.0, January 202417, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public Licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureC and C++
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaClojure
Java
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javayes infoTransaction FunctionsPSQLyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl
TriggersnoBy using transaction functionsyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroring
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesnoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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