DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. GreptimeDB vs. IBM Db2 vs. MySQL

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. GreptimeDB vs. IBM Db2 vs. MySQL

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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.

An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiency

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

Widely used open source RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.85
Rank	#203	Overall
	#96	Relational DBMS

Score	13.60
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.09
Rank	#343	Overall
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	123.05
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	1029.49
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

greptime.com

www.ibm.com/products/db2

www.mysql.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

firebase.google.com/docs/database

docs.greptime.com

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

dev.mysql.com/doc

Developer

Alibaba

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Greptime Inc.

IBM

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Initial release

2016

2012

2022

1983

host version

1995

Current release

12.1, October 2016

9.0.0, July 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free version is available

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Rust

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

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

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Java

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

limited functionality with using 'rules'

Python

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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