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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. AntDB vs. BaseX vs. Google Cloud Firestore

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonAntDB  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.A scalable, multi-tenant, MPP-architectured RDBMS for OLTP and OLAP operations, highly compatible with OracleLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.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.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSNative XML DBMSDocument store
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Score0.82
Rank#205  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#342  Overall
#149  Relational DBMS
Score1.56
Rank#141  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score6.63
Rank#54  Overall
#9  Document stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbwww.asiainfo.com/­en_us/­product_aisware_antdb_detail.htmlbasex.orgfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestore
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewdocs.basex.orgfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestore
DeveloperAlibabaAsiaInfo Technologies LimitedBaseX GmbHGoogle
Initial release20072017
Current release11.2, August 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyes
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Implementation languageJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesno infoXQuery supports typesyes
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.yesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL2016 compliantnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions
Triggersyesyesyes infovia eventsyes, with Cloud Functions
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoUsing Cloud Dataflow
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDmultiple readers, single writeryes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.
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