DBMS > AlaSQL vs. EXASOL vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. EXASOL vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

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.

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	1.99
Rank	#124	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	7.85
Rank	#51	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#379	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.exasol.com

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

www.hawkular.org

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.exasol.com/resources

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Exasol

Google

Community supported by Red Hat

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2014

2000

2017

2014

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java
Lua
Python
R

Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Using Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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