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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Dolt vs. etcd vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Qdrant

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Dolt vs. etcd vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Qdrant

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonDolt  Xexclude from comparisonetcd  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schemaA distributed reliable key-value storeCloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.A high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value storeDocument storeVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.96
Rank#193  Overall
#90  Relational DBMS
Score7.25
Rank#54  Overall
#5  Key-value stores
Score7.85
Rank#51  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score1.16
Rank#175  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Websitealasql.orggithub.com/­dolthub/­dolt
www.dolthub.com
etcd.io
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd
firebase.google.com/­products/­firestoregithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.dolthub.cometcd.io/­docs
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd/­tree/­master/­Documentation
firebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoreqdrant.tech/­documentation
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffDoltHub IncGoogleQdrant
Initial release2014201820172021
Current release3.4, August 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaScriptGoGoRust
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
Windows infoexperimental
hostedDocker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyesNumbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean
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
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesnonono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APICLI Client
HTTP REST
gRPC
JSON over HTTP
Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infocurrently in alpha releasenoyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions
Triggersyesyesyes, watching key changesyes, with Cloud Functions
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingSharding
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.Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.Multi-source replicationCollection-level replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoUsing Cloud Dataflowno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDnoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoOnly one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startupnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.Key-based authentication

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