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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. BigObject vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. openGemini

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Cloud-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 scalability

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Document store

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.42
Rank	#264	Overall
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	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#329	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	13.60
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Website

alasql.org

bigobject.io

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.opengemini.org
github.com/openGemini

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.bigobject.io

firebase.google.com/docs/database

docs.opengemini.org/guide

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

BigObject, Inc.

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Huawei and openGemini community

Initial release

2014

2015

2012

2022

Current release

1.1, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

hosted

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Integer, Float, Boolean, String

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

limited functionality with using 'rules'

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Administrators and common users accounts

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