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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Apache Doris vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. GridGain vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache Doris vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. GridGain vs. TimescaleDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonApache Doris  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryAn MPP-based analytics DBMS embracing the MySQL protocolCloud 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.GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeColumnar
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.42
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score0.61
Rank#235  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Score6.63
Rank#54  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score1.48
Rank#150  Overall
#1  Columnar
#26  Key-value stores
#2  Object oriented DBMS
#69  Relational DBMS
Score4.06
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitealasql.orgdoris.apache.org
github.com/­apache/­doris
firebase.google.com/­products/­firestorewww.gridgain.comwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlgithub.com/­apache/­doris/­wikifirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestorewww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmldocs.timescale.com
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffApache Software Foundation, originally contributed from BaiduGoogleGridGain Systems, Inc.Timescale
Initial release20142017201720072017
Current release1.2.2, February 2023GridGain 8.5.12.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercial, open sourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaJava, C++, .Net, Python, REST, SQLC
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxhostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.nononoyesyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesnoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
MySQL client
Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJavaGo
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)user defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersyesnoyes, with Cloud Functionsyes (cache interceptors and events)yes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningShardingShardingyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneMulti-source replicationyes (replicated cache)Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoUsing Cloud Dataflowyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)no
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageyesACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.Role-based access control
Security Hooks for custom implementations
fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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