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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Firebird vs. Machbase Neo

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Firebird vs. Machbase Neo

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon Redshift  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryLarge scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence toolsFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series 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
Score16.88
Rank#35  Overall
#22  Relational DBMS
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#337  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Websitealasql.orgaws.amazon.com/­redshiftwww.firebirdsql.orgmachbase.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.aws.amazon.com/­redshiftwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsmachbase.com/­dbms
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAmazon (based on PostgreSQL)Firebird FoundationMachbase
Initial release201420122000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2013
Current release5.0.0, January 2024V8.0, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public Licensecommercial infofree test version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptCC and C++C
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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 indexesnorestrictedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yes infodoes not fully support an SQL-standardyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions infoin PythonPSQLno
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoinformational only, not enforced by the systemyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesno
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infovolatile and lookup table
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptsimple password-based access control

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