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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. RavenDB vs. STSdb vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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.

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Document store

Key-value store

Document store

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.78
Rank	#221	Overall
	#102	Relational DBMS

Score	15.00
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	3.01
Rank	#101	Overall
	#17	Document stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#365	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

ravendb.net

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

firebase.google.com/docs/database

ravendb.net/docs

Developer

Alibaba

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Hibernating Rhinos

STS Soft SC

8Kdata

Initial release

2016

2012

2010

2011

2016

Current release

5.4, July 2022

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (RQL)

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

Java

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes

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

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication

none

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

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Authorization levels configured per client per database

Access rights for users and roles

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