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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. EJDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. GridGain vs. IBM Db2 warehouse

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. EJDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. GridGain vs. IBM Db2 warehouse

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)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 IgniteCloud-based data warehousing service
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesDocument storeDocument storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score0.84
Rank#209  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score0.31
Rank#296  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Score1.37
Rank#160  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputegithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.gridgain.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehouse
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputegithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.html
DeveloperAlibabaSoftmotionsGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014GridGain Systems, Inc.IBM
Initial release20162012201220072014
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.1
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2commercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnoyes
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Implementation languageCJava, C++, .Net
Server operating systemshostedserver-lesshostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesyesyes
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 infoImport/export of XML data possible
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenonoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyes
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
in-process shared libraryAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesJavaActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javanolimited functionality with using 'rules'yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)PL/SQL, SQL PL
TriggersnonoCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes (cache interceptors and events)yes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneyes (replicated cache)yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)no
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoyesACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyesyes
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.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesnoyes, based on authentication and database rulesSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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