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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. OpenSearch vs. Oracle Berkeley DB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Datastore  Xexclude from comparisonOpenSearch  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud PlatformA distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache LuceneWidely used in-process key-value store
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeDocument storeSearch engineKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.42
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score13.60
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score4.13
Rank#71  Overall
#12  Document stores
Score16.31
Rank#36  Overall
#4  Search engines
Score1.88
Rank#130  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Websitealasql.orgfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasecloud.google.com/­datastoregithub.com/­opensearch-project
opensearch.org
www.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.html
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasecloud.google.com/­datastore/­docsopensearch.org/­docs/­latestdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014GoogleAmazon Web ServicesOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle
Initial release20142012200820211994
Current release2.5.0, January 202318.1.40, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infocommercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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STACKIT OpenSearch offers OpenSearch in a managed version in enterprise grade, 100% GDPR-compliant, for a wide range of applications like analytics, website search, offering scalability and fast data access.
Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedhostedAll OS with a Java VMAIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes, details hereyesno
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.nononoyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML edition
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noSQL-like query language (GQL)SQL-like query languageyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is available
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby infoElasticsearch client
.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnolimited functionality with using 'rules'using Google App Engineyesno
TriggersyesCallbacks are triggered when data changesCallbacks using the Google Apps Engineyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyes infoonly for the SQL API
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication using PaxosyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflowno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration infoStrong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.Eventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infovia ReferenceProperties or Ancestor pathsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageyesACID infoSerializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of TransactionsnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
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.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)no
More information provided by the system vendor
AlaSQLFirebase Realtime DatabaseGoogle Cloud DatastoreOpenSearchOracle Berkeley DB
Specific characteristicsOpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Competitive advantagesDistributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenariosThe OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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Licensing and pricing modelsThe OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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