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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. ITTIA

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. ITTIA

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonITTIA  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Edge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream Processing
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Search engineDocument storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.44
Rank#267  Overall
#23  Time Series DBMS
Websitealasql.orgaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.ittia.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchfirebase.google.com/­docs/­database
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAmazonGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014ITTIA L.L.C.
Initial release2014201220122007
Current release8.7
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaScriptC and C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedhostedLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeFixed schema
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesFloat/Blob/Integer/String/Unicode/Date/Time/Timestamp/Interval
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nonoyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIHTTP APIAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonolimited functionality with using 'rules'yes
TriggersyesnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infomanaged transparently by AWSyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoyesyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
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.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoauthentication via encrypted signaturesyes, based on authentication and database rulesDatabase file passwords

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