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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Graphite vs. searchxml

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Graphite vs. searchxml

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  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.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeTime Series DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Websitealasql.orgfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasegraphite.readthedocs.iowww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Chris Davisinformationpartners gmbh
Initial release2014201220062015
Current release1.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaScriptPythonC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinux
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesNumeric data onlyyes
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
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nonono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Sockets
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnolimited functionality with using 'rules'noyes infoon the application server
TriggersyesCallbacks are triggered when data changesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneyes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
noneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageyesnomultiple readers, single writer
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes, based on authentication and database rulesnoDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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