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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Dgraph vs. Drizzle vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. GridGain

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Dgraph vs. Drizzle vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. GridGain

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesGraph DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score0.84
Rank#209  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score1.53
Rank#152  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputedgraph.iofirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.gridgain.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputedgraph.io/­docsfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.html
DeveloperAlibabaDgraph Labs, Inc.Drizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014GridGain Systems, Inc.
Initial release20162016200820122007
Current release7.2.4, September 2012GridGain 8.5.1
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGNU GPLcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageGoC++Java, C++, .Net
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
hostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoyes infowith proprietary extensionsnoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
JDBCAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Supported programming languagesJavaC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
PHP
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javanonolimited functionality with using 'rules'yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)
Triggersnonono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.Callbacks are triggered when data changesyes (cache interceptors and events)
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSynchronous replication via RaftMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes (replicated cache)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDyesACID
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.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesno infoPlanned for future releasesPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPyes, based on authentication and database rulesSecurity Hooks for custom implementations

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