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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Hive vs. Kdb vs. NCache

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingCloud 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.data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopHigh performance Time Series DBMSOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.77
Rank#214  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score7.85
Rank#51  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score7.55
Rank#53  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score0.94
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputefirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorehive.apache.orgkx.comwww.alachisoft.com/­ncache
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputefirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestorecwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homecode.kx.comwww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaGoogleApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcAlachisoft
Initial release2016201720122000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 20032005
Current release3.1.3, April 20223.6, May 20185.3.3, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infofree 32-bit versionOpen Source infoEnterprise Edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaqC#, .NET, .NET Core, Java
Server operating systemshostedhostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyespartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language (q)SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesJavaGo
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javayes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceuser defined functionsno infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR
Triggersnoyes, with Cloud Functionsnoyes infowith viewsyes infoNotifications
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingShardinghorizontal partitioningyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replicationselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationyes, with selectable consistency level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesUsing Cloud Dataflowyes infoquery execution via MapReduceno infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesnonooptimistic locking and pessimistic locking
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.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.Access rights for users, groups and rolesrights management via user accountsAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)
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Alibaba Cloud MaxComputeGoogle Cloud FirestoreHiveKdbNCache
Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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NCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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NCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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NCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Bank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Market Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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NCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
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