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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Bangdb vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. IRONdb vs. Teradata

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Bangdb vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. IRONdb vs. Teradata

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityA hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Graph 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
Score0.07
Rank#346  Overall
#47  Document stores
#35  Graph DBMS
#32  Time Series DBMS
Score13.60
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score41.47
Rank#22  Overall
#15  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgbangdb.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.teradata.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.bangdb.comfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddocs.teradata.com
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffSachin Sinha, BangDBGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Circonus LLC.Teradata
Initial release20142012201220171984
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 2021V0.10.20, January 2018Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoBSD 3commercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC, C++C and C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxhostedLinuxhosted
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes
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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesnoyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesnoyes infoJoin-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL like support with command line toolnoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)yes infoSQL 2016 + extensions
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C#
C++
Java
Python
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonolimited functionality with using 'rules'yes, in Luayes infoUDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel
Triggersyesyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)Callbacks are triggered when data changesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding infoHashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)configurable replication factor, datacenter awareMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDyesnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes, run db with in-memory only modenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes (enterprise version only)yes, based on authentication and database rulesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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