DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Geode vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Geode vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. RDF4J

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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

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

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.78
Rank	#221	Overall
	#102	Relational DBMS

Score	15.00
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	1.99
Rank	#133	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	829.80
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.71
Rank	#231	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

geode.apache.org

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

rdf4j.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

firebase.google.com/docs/database

geode.apache.org/docs

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Alibaba

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

Microsoft

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Initial release

2016

2012

2002

1989

2004

Current release

1.1, February 2017

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

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

SQL-like query language (OQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

Java

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

limited functionality with using 'rules'

user defined functions

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

none

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

yes, on a single node

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Access rights per client and object definable

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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