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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Apache Drill vs. EJDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Oracle Coherence

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache Drill vs. EJDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Oracle Coherence

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS librarySchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Oracles in-memory data grid solution
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Relational DBMS
Document storeDocument storeKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score0.31
Rank#296  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score1.97
Rank#129  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Websitealasql.orgdrill.apache.orggithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.oracle.com/­java/­coherence
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldrill.apache.org/­docsgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherence
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffApache Software FoundationSoftmotionsGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Oracle
Initial release20142012201220122007
Current release1.20.3, January 202314.1, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGPLv2commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaScriptCJava
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
server-lesshostedAll OS with a Java VM
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesyes
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 indexesnononoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnonono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
in-process shared libraryAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC++Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnolimited functionality with using 'rules'no
TriggersyesnonoCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes infoLive Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneyes, with selectable consistency level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenonoyesconfigurable
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyes infooptionally
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesDepending on the underlying data sourceyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoDepending on the underlying data sourcenoyes, based on authentication and database rulesauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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