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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Heroic

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Heroic

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryScalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualizationCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Document storeTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#307  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Websitealasql.orgcambridgesemantics.com/­anzographfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegithub.com/­spotify/­heroic
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasespotify.github.io/­heroic
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffCambridge SemanticsGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Spotify
Initial release2014201820122014
Current release2.3, January 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infofree trial version availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaScriptJava
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linuxhosted
Data schemeschema-freeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes infovia Elasticsearch
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.nono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIApache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC++
Java
Python
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions and aggregateslimited functionality with using 'rules'no
TriggersyesnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic shardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication in MPP-Clusteryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoKerberos/HDFS data loadingnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency in MPP-ClusterEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infonot needed in graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDyesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
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.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and rolesyes, based on authentication and database rules

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