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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Impala vs. Firebase Realtime Database

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Name

Description

A cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	0.59
Rank	#241	Overall
	#110	Relational DBMS

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	13.77
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/polardb

aws.amazon.com/redshift

impala.apache.org

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/polardb/product-overview

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

firebase.google.com/docs/database

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Initial release

2012

2013

2012

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in Python

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

limited functionality with using 'rules'

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

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

yes

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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