DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Impala vs. Drizzle vs. Firebase Realtime Database

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Impala vs. Drizzle vs. Firebase Realtime Database

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

MySQL 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 model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store

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

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	13.77
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Website

alasql.org

aws.amazon.com/redshift

impala.apache.org

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

firebase.google.com/docs/database

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Initial release

2014

2012

2013

2008

2012

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

7.2.4, September 2012

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

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

hosted

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C++
Java
PHP

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

limited functionality with using 'rules'

Triggers

yes

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

yes

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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