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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. BigObject vs. Firebolt vs. IBM Cloudant

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. BigObject vs. Firebolt vs. IBM Cloudant

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesHighly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSDocument store
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#140  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Websitealasql.orgbigobject.iowww.firebolt.iowww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudant
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.bigobject.iodocs.firebolt.iocloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffBigObject, Inc.Firebolt Analytics Inc.IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release2014201520202010
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaScriptErlang
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
hostedhosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesno
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 DML and DDL statementsyesno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptGo
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuanoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenonedepending on storage layerMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenono infoatomic operations within a document possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yes infoOptimistic locking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoAccess rights for users can be defined per database

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