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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Databricks vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. GeoSpock

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Databricks vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. GeoSpock

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryThe Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses to provide a unified view onto structured and unstructured data. It is based on Apache Spark.Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Relational DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score0.42
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score84.24
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Document stores
#9  Relational DBMS
Score13.60
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Websitealasql.orgwww.databricks.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegeospock.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.databricks.comfirebase.google.com/­docs/­database
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffDatabricksGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014GeoSpock
Initial release201420132012
Current release2.0, September 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesyes
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJava, Javascript
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedhostedhosted
Data schemeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyestemporal, categorical
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.with Databricks SQLnoANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptPython
R
Scala
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions and aggregateslimited functionality with using 'rules'no
TriggersyesCallbacks are triggered when data changesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDyesno
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.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess rights for users can be defined per table
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Specific characteristicsSupported database models : In addition to the Document store and Relational DBMS...
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