DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. OpenEdge

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. OpenEdge

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Hosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Document store

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	74.07
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	5.59
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

www.progress.com/openedge

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

firebase.google.com/docs/database

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Amazon

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Microsoft

Progress Software Corporation

Initial release

2014

2012

2015

1984

Current release

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

yes

close to SQL 92

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

RESTful HTTP API

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

ACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and region

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

yes, based on authentication and database rules

yes

using Azure authentication

Users and groups

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