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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. PlanetScale

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA real-time data warehousing service that can process petabytes of data with high concurrency and low latency. It is fully compatible with the MySQL protocol.Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Scalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of Vitess
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.42
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score0.92
Rank#195  Overall
#91  Relational DBMS
Score13.60
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score1.09
Rank#178  Overall
#82  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­analyticdb-for-mysqlfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databaseplanetscale.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­doc-detail/­93776.htmfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databaseplanetscale.com/­docs
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAlibabaGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014PlanetScale
Initial release201420122020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesyes
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Implementation languageJavaScriptGo
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedhostedDocker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesnoyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC#
Java
PHP
Python
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyeslimited functionality with using 'rules'yes infoproprietary syntax
TriggersyesyesCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDyesACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes 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.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes, based on authentication and database rulesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles
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AlaSQLAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQLFirebase Realtime DatabasePlanetScale
Specific characteristicsA real-time data warehousing service that can process PB data with high concurrency...
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Competitive advantagesTPC Benchmark: The world leading result in TPC-DS benchmark . TPC-H benchmark for...
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Licensing and pricing modelsAvailable regions: America US Virginia US Silicon Valley Asia China Hong Kong India...
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