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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. EXASOL vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Linter vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. EXASOL vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Linter vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonLinter  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.RDBMS for high security requirementsA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.42
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score1.66
Rank#138  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score13.60
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.03
Rank#368  Overall
#156  Relational DBMS
Score3.55
Rank#80  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Websitealasql.orgwww.exasol.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databaselinter.ruazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tables
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.exasol.com/­resourcesfirebase.google.com/­docs/­database
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffExasolGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014relex.ruMicrosoft
Initial release20142000201219902012
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnoyes
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC and C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedAIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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 indexesnoyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript API.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJava
Lua
Python
R
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionslimited functionality with using 'rules'yes infoproprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQLno
TriggersyesyesCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoHadoop integrationnonono
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 ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDyesACIDoptimistic locking
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.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardyes, based on authentication and database rulesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

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