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

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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.

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Document store

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Score	0.66
Rank	#211	Overall
	#102	Relational DBMS

Score	18.92
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	3.09
Rank	#98	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

pouchdb.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/product/27797.htm

firebase.google.com/docs/database

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

Alibaba

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2016

2012

Current release

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Java

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

limited functionality with using 'rules'

View functions in JavaScript

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

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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

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