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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. ObjectBox vs. Snowflake vs. Valentina Server

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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.

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Document store

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#327	Overall
	#145	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

objectbox.io

www.snowflake.com

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

firebase.google.com/docs/database

docs.objectbox.io

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Alibaba

Google

acquired by Google 2014

ObjectBox Limited

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2016

2012

2017

2014

1999

Current release

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary native API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

limited functionality with using 'rules'

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

online/offline synchronization between client and server

yes

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

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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