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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. H2GIS vs. LeanXcale vs. Transwarp Hippo

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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 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.

Spatial extension of H2

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

Cloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Document store

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	7.36
Rank	#53	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.36
Rank	#280	Overall
	#40	Key-value stores
	#129	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#386	Overall
	#14	Vector DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

www.h2gis.org

www.leanxcale.com

www.transwarp.cn/en/subproduct/hippo

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

Developer

Alibaba

Google

CNRS

LeanXcale

Initial release

2016

2017

2013

2015

2023

Current release

1.0, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

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

through Apache Derby

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python

Java

C
Java
Scala

C++
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

yes

based on H2

Triggers

yes, with Cloud Functions

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

yes

based on H2

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Using Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

yes

based on H2

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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