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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Dolt vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Ignite

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonDolt  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schemaCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#191  Overall
#89  Relational DBMS
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score3.11
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orggithub.com/­dolthub/­dolt
www.dolthub.com
firebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databaseignite.apache.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.dolthub.comfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databaseapacheignite.readme.io/­docs
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffDoltHub IncGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Apache Software Foundation
Initial release2014201820122015
Current releaseApache Ignite 2.6
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaScriptGoC++, Java, .Net
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
macOS
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesnoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APICLI Client
HTTP REST
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infocurrently in alpha releaselimited functionality with using 'rules'yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)
TriggersyesyesCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes (cache interceptors and events)
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneA database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.yes (replicated cache)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)
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
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDyesACID
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.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoOnly one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startupyes, based on authentication and database rulesSecurity Hooks for custom implementations

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