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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Hyprcubd vs. IBM Cloudant vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Hyprcubd vs. IBM Cloudant vs. SiteWhere

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
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.Serverless Time Series DBMSDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeTime Series DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Websitealasql.orgfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasehyprcubd.com (offline)www.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Hyprcubd, Inc.IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014SiteWhere
Initial release2014201220102010
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaScriptGoErlangJava
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedhostedhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freepredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infotime, int, uint, float, stringnoyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noSQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC (https)RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnolimited functionality with using 'rules'noView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
TriggersyesCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Eventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageyesnono infoatomic operations within a document possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesnoyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
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.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes, based on authentication and database rulestoken accessAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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