DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Firebird vs. Google BigQuery vs. RDFox

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Firebird vs. Google BigQuery vs. RDFox

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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

Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBase

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	20.50
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#300	Overall
	#24	Graph DBMS
	#13	RDF stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

www.firebirdsql.org

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

Developer

Alibaba

Firebird Foundation

Google

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Initial release

2016

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2010

2017

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

6.0, Septermber 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

PSQL

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

replication via a shared file system

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Features a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Roles, resources, and access types

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