DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. GreptimeDB vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. GreptimeDB vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Cloud 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.

An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiency

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	7.36
Rank	#53	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	0.12
Rank	#351	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#345	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

alasql.org

aws.amazon.com/redshift

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

greptime.com

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

docs.greptime.com

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Google

Greptime Inc.

Initial release

2014

2012

2017

2022

2009

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Rust

Java

Server operating systems

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

hosted

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

Python

Triggers

yes

yes, with Cloud Functions

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

optional

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 Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

Simple rights management via user accounts

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