DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Google BigQuery vs. OrigoDB vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Google BigQuery vs. OrigoDB vs. Riak KV

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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.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

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Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#380	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

cloud.google.com/bigquery

origodb.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

firebase.google.com/docs/database

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

origodb.com/docs

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

Alibaba

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Google

Robert Friberg et al

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2016

2012

2010

2009

under the name LiveDB

2009

Current release

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

Java

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

limited functionality with using 'rules'

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Erlang

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Domain Events

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

depending on model

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

yes

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 privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Role based authorization

yes, using Riak Security

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