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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Apache Drill vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Machbase Neo vs. Netezza

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache Drill vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Machbase Neo vs. Netezza

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS librarySchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataData warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Relational DBMS
Document storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.17
Rank#337  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score8.59
Rank#45  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgdrill.apache.orgfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasemachbase.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­netezza
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldrill.apache.org/­docsfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasemachbase.com/­dbms
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffApache Software FoundationGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014MachbaseIBM
Initial release20142012201220132000
Current release1.20.3, January 2023V8.0, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialcommercial infofree test version availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux infoincluded in appliance
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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 indexesnonoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnoSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC++Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionslimited functionality with using 'rules'noyes
TriggersyesnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factorSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoyesnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageDepending on the underlying data sourceyesnoyes
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 infovolatile and lookup table
User concepts infoAccess controlnoDepending on the underlying data sourceyes, based on authentication and database rulessimple password-based access controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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AlaSQLApache DrillFirebase Realtime DatabaseMachbase Neo infoFormer name was InfinifluxNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM
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