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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. GigaSpaces vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Heroic vs. Linter

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonLinter  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsCloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchRDBMS for high security requirements
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Document storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.77
Rank#214  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score0.97
Rank#192  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score7.85
Rank#51  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#346  Overall
#152  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputewww.gigaspaces.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestoregithub.com/­spotify/­heroiclinter.ru
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputedocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestorespotify.github.io/­heroic
DeveloperAlibabaGigaspaces TechnologiesGoogleSpotifyrelex.ru
Initial release20162000201720141990
Current release15.5, September 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetJavaC and C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
hostedAIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nono infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatanonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL-99 for query and DML statementsnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javayesyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsnoyes infoproprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL
Triggersnoyes, event driven architectureyes, with Cloud Functionsnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Multi-source replicationyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsUsing Cloud Dataflownono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDyesnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesRole-based access controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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