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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Interbase vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. ObjectBox

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Interbase vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. ObjectBox

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Light-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile
Primary database modelWide column storeDocument storeRelational DBMSSearch engineObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbaseazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchobjectbox.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestorefirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbaselearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchdocs.objectbox.io
DeveloperAlibabaGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014EmbarcaderoMicrosoftObjectBox Limited
Initial release20162012198420152017
Current releaseInterBase 2020, December 2019V1
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageCC and C++
Server operating systemshostedhostedAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonono infoexport as XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIProprietary native API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnolimited functionality with using 'rules'yes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languagenono
TriggersnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceInterbase Change Viewsyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceonline/offline synchronization between client and server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsyesACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensyes, based on authentication and database rulesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousing Azure authenticationyes
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Alibaba Cloud Table StoreFirebase Realtime DatabaseInterbaseMicrosoft Azure AI SearchObjectBox
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