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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Lovefield vs. Machbase Neo vs. PouchDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Lovefield vs. Machbase Neo vs. PouchDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.77
Rank#214  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score0.12
Rank#339  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegoogle.github.io/­lovefieldmachbase.compouchdb.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputefirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasegithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdmachbase.com/­dbmspouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperAlibabaGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014GoogleMachbaseApache Software Foundation
Initial release20162012201420132012
Current release2.1.12, February 2017V8.0, August 20237.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree test version availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptCJavaScript
Server operating systemshostedhostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
macOS
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesJavaJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
JavaScriptC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javalimited functionality with using 'rules'nonoView functions in JavaScript
TriggersnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesUsing read-only observersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneselectable replication factorMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databasenoyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infousing MemoryDByes infovolatile and lookup tableyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesyes, based on authentication and database rulesnosimple password-based access controlno

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