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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Graphite vs. H2

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceCloud 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.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score0.49
Rank#259  Overall
#40  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score0.24
Rank#312  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score8.96
Rank#48  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score4.75
Rank#75  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score8.22
Rank#50  Overall
#32  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestoregithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.h2database.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoregraphite.readthedocs.iowww.h2database.com/­html/­main.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAlibabaGoogleChris DavisThomas Mueller
Initial release2014201720062005
Current release2.2.220, July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptPythonJava
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedhostedLinux
Unix
All OS with a Java VM
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoNumeric data and StringsyesNumeric data onlyyes
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 indexesnonoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nononoyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIHTTP RESTAndroid
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Sockets
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJavaGo
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud FunctionsnoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions
Triggersyesnoyes, with Cloud Functionsnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationnoneWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoUsing Cloud Dataflownono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoyesnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infolockingyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
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.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess managed on TSDB instance levelAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.nofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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