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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Brytlyt vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. LeanXcale

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonBrytlyt  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonLeanXcale  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.Scalable GPU-accelerated RDBMS for very fast analytic and streaming workloads, leveraging PostgreSQLCloud 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
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
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Score0.82
Rank#205  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#292  Overall
#132  Relational DBMS
Score6.63
Rank#54  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score0.28
Rank#286  Overall
#41  Key-value stores
#130  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbbrytlyt.iofirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorewww.leanxcale.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewdocs.brytlyt.iofirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestore
DeveloperAlibabaBrytlytGoogleLeanXcale
Initial release201620172015
Current release5.0, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageC, C++ and CUDA
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.yesyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.no
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnoyes infothrough Apache Derby
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
C
Java
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functions infoin PL/pgSQLyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions
Triggersyesyesyes, with Cloud Functions
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoUsing Cloud Dataflowno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDyesACID
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-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess 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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