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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. atoti vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Heroic vs. Warp 10

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

An in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.

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

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Document store

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.42
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	0.45
Rank	#253	Overall
	#13	Object oriented DBMS

Score	13.60
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#335	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#351	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Website

alasql.org

atoti.io

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.atoti.io

firebase.google.com/docs/database

spotify.github.io/heroic

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

ActiveViam

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Spotify

SenX

Initial release

2014

2012

2014

2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

free versions available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

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

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

SQL

Support of SQL

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

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

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, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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