DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. LeanXcale vs. OpenSearch vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. LeanXcale vs. OpenSearch vs. SurrealDB

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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.

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

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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

Document store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	7.85
Rank	#51	Overall
	#8	Document stores

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

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.86
Rank	#203	Overall
	#34	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

www.leanxcale.com

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

opensearch.org/docs/latest

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Alibaba

Google

LeanXcale

Amazon Web Services

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2016

2017

2015

2021

2022

Current release

2.5.0, January 2023

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

through Apache Derby

SQL-like query language

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

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

Java

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

C
Java
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

yes

Triggers

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication

yes

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

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

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

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 authentication and database rules

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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