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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Apache Pinot vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. openGemini vs. RavenDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache Pinot vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. openGemini vs. RavenDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonopenGemini  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.An open source distributed Time Series DBMS with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalabilityOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series 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
Score0.35
Rank#274  Overall
#128  Relational DBMS
Score13.60
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#102  Overall
#19  Document stores
Websitealasql.orgpinot.apache.orgfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.opengemini.org
github.com/­openGemini
ravendb.net
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.pinot.apache.orgfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.opengemini.org/­guideravendb.net/­docs
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffApache Software Foundation and contributorsGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Huawei and openGemini communityHibernating Rhinos
Initial release20142015201220222010
Current release1.0.0, September 20231.1, July 20235.4, July 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaGoC#
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)All OS with a Java JDK11 or higherhostedLinux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesInteger, Float, Boolean, Stringno
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (RQL)
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBCAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptGo
Java
Python
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnolimited functionality with using 'rules'noyes
TriggersyesCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageyesnoACID, Cluster-wide transaction available
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.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes, based on authentication and database rulesAdministrators and common users accountsAuthorization levels configured per client per database

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