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DBMS > AgensGraph vs. AlaSQL vs. Blueflood vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Infobright

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. AlaSQL vs. Blueflood vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Infobright

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NameAgensGraph  Xexclude from comparisonAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMulti-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQLJavaScript DBMS libraryScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraCloud 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.High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Document store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.23
Rank#315  Overall
#26  Graph DBMS
#140  Relational DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score7.36
Rank#53  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score1.02
Rank#192  Overall
#90  Relational DBMS
Websitebitnine.net/­agensgraphalasql.orgblueflood.iofirebase.google.com/­products/­firestoreignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdb
Technical documentationbitnine.net/­documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikifirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestore
DeveloperBitnine Global Inc.Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffRackspaceGoogleIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.
Initial release20162014201320172005
Current release2.1, December 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageCJavaScriptJavaC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
hostedLinux
Windows
Data schemedepending on used data modelschema-freepredefined schemeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesnonoyesno infoKnowledge Grid Technology used instead
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nonoyes
APIs and other access methodsCypher Query Language
JDBC
JavaScript APIHTTP RESTAndroid
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
Java
JavaScript
Python
JavaScriptGo
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsno
Triggersnoyesnoyes, with Cloud Functionsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesno, but can be realized using table inheritancenoneSharding infobased on CassandraShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoUsing Cloud Dataflowno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnonoAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

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