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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Apache Impala vs. Drizzle vs. Firebase Realtime Database

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Apache Impala vs. Drizzle vs. Firebase Realtime Database

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceAnalytic DBMS for HadoopMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.24
Rank#306  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score13.77
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Websitealasql.orgwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbimpala.apache.orgfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-database
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlfirebase.google.com/­docs/­database
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAlibabaApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014
Initial release2014201320082012
Current release4.1.0, June 20227.2.4, September 2012
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGNU GPLcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonoyes
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoNumeric data and Stringsyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infowith proprietary extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIHTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
JDBCAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJavaAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC
C++
Java
PHP
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenolimited functionality with using 'rules'
Triggersyesnonono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.Callbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenonoACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess managed on TSDB instance levelAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPyes, based on authentication and database rules

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