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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Dragonfly vs. etcd vs. FeatureBase vs. Google Cloud Firestore

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Dragonfly vs. etcd vs. FeatureBase vs. Google Cloud Firestore

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonetcd  Xexclude from comparisonFeatureBase  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceA distributed reliable key-value storeReal-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.Cloud 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.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument 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
Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score7.03
Rank#54  Overall
#5  Key-value stores
Score0.31
Rank#292  Overall
#135  Relational DBMS
Score7.36
Rank#53  Overall
#9  Document stores
Websitealasql.orggithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
etcd.io
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd
www.featurebase.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestore
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.dragonflydb.io/­docsetcd.io/­docs
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd/­tree/­master/­Documentation
docs.featurebase.comfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestore
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffDragonflyDB team and community contributorsMolecula and Pilosa Open Source ContributorsGoogle
Initial release2014202320172017
Current release1.0, March 20233.4, August 20192022, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++GoGo
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
Windows infoexperimental
Linux
macOS
hosted
Data schemeschema-freescheme-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenostrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysnoyesyes
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 indexesnonononoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nonoSQL queriesno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolgRPC
JSON over HTTP
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl
Java
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuanoyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions
Triggersyespublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyes, watching key changesnoyes, with Cloud Functions
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.yesMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoUsing Cloud Dataflow
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsnoyesyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, strict serializability by the serveryesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes, using Linux fsyncyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoPassword-based authenticationnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

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