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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. EventStoreDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. StarRocks

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

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.

An open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics

Forked from Apache Doris

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Event Store

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	1.10
Rank	#179	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	7.85
Rank	#51	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	1.04
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.eventstore.com

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

www.starrocks.io

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

developers.eventstore.com

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

docs.starrocks.io/en-us/latest/introduction/StarRocks_intro

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Event Store Limited

Google

The Linux Foundation

since Feb 2023

Initial release

2014

2012

2017

2020

Current release

21.2, February 2021

2.5.3, March 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++, Java

Server operating systems

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

Linux
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

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

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

JDBC
MySQL protocol

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

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

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

yes, with Cloud Functions

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range and hash)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

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

yes

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 based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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