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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. FileMaker vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. HarperDB vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. FileMaker vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. HarperDB vs. SiteWhere

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.HarperDB takes the "stack" out of "tech stack" by combining an ultra-fast document-style data store, in-memory cache, real-time message broker, and your application components into a single distributed technology.M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument storeTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.85
Rank#203  Overall
#96  Relational DBMS
Score45.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score13.60
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.55
Rank#243  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score0.07
Rank#347  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputewww.claris.com/­filemakerfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.harperdb.iogithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputewww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.harperdb.io/­docssitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperAlibabaClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014HarperDBSiteWhere
Initial release20161983201220172010
Current release19.4.1, November 20213.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageNode.jsJava
Server operating systemshostediOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freedynamic schemapredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infoJSON data typesyes
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.noyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatnonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyes infovia pluginsnoSQL-like data manipulation statementsno
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJavaPHPJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javayeslimited functionality with using 'rules'Custom Functions infosince release 3.1
TriggersnoyesCallbacks are triggered when data changesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusterSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
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 integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoyesAtomic execution of specific operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, using LMDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolessimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess rights for users and rolesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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