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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. GigaSpaces vs. Hypertable vs. RocksDB

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Wide column store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
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Trend Chart

Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	1.03
Rank	#188	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

alasql.org

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.gigaspaces.com

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

firebase.google.com/docs/database

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Gigaspaces Technologies

Hypertable Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2014

2012

2000

2009

2013

Current release

15.5, September 2020

0.9.8.11, March 2016

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java, C++, .Net

C++

Server operating systems

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

hosted

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

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.

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

C++ API
Thrift

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes, event driven architecture

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

selectable replication factor on file system level

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

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

ACID

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

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Role-based access control

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