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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. mSQL vs. searchxml

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Name

Description

A fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time access

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

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Wide column store

Document store

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

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Score	0.25
Rank	#294	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	13.60
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	1.26
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

firebase.google.com/docs/database

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Alibaba

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Hughes Technologies

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2016

2012

1994

2015

Current release

4.4, October 2021

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free licenses can be provided

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes

on the application server

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

yes

multiple readers, single writer

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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