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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. ITTIA vs. LeanXcale vs. Riak KV

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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.

Edge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream Processing

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

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	7.85
Rank	#51	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	0.39
Rank	#273	Overall
	#24	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#291	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

www.ittia.com

www.leanxcale.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

Alibaba

Google

ITTIA L.L.C.

LeanXcale

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2016

2017

2007

2015

2009

Current release

8.7

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Fixed schema

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Float/Blob/Integer/String/Unicode/Date/Time/Timestamp/Interval

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

restricted

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
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

Java

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

C
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
Java
Scala

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

yes

Erlang

Triggers

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication

yes

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Using Cloud Dataflow

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

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.

Database file passwords

yes, using Riak Security

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