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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. BigchainDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. IRONdb vs. Prometheus

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. BigchainDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. IRONdb vs. Prometheus

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsCloud-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 simplicityOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeDocument storeTime Series DBMSTime Series 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
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.bigchaindb.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/prometheus.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedprometheus.io/­docs
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Circonus LLC.
Initial release20142016201220172015
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptPythonC and C++Go
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxhostedLinuxLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsNumeric data only
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.nonononono infoImport of XML data possible
Secondary indexesnoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nonoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)no
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APICLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP APIRESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
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
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnolimited functionality with using 'rules'yes, in Luano
TriggersyesCallbacks are triggered when data changesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factorconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareyes infoby Federation
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageyesnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesyes, based on authentication and database rulesnono

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