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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Hyprcubd vs. Informix vs. Ingres

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonInformix  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  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 DBMSA secure embeddable database from IBM, positioned besides IBM Db2 as a relatively low-cost product optimized for OLTP and Internet of Things dataWell established RDBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes compatible with MongoDBRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS infowith Informix TimeSeries Extension
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
Score17.87
Rank#35  Overall
#22  Relational DBMS
Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasehyprcubd.com (offline)www.ibm.com/­products/­informixwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingres
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databaseinformix.hcldoc.com
www.ibm.com/­support/­knowledgecenter/­SSGU8G/­welcomeIfxServers.html
docs.actian.com/­ingres
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Hyprcubd, Inc.IBM, HCL Technologies infoEffective May 1st, 2017, HCL took on development, technical support, and product management teams, and works jointly with IBM on product strategy, marketing, and sales.Actian Corporation
Initial release2014201219841974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s
Current release14.10.FC5, November 202011.2, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercialcommercialcommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptGoC, C++ and JavaC
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedhostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infotime, int, uint, float, stringyes infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypesyes
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.nononono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noSQL-like query languageyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC (https)JDBC
JSON API infoMongoDB compatible
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnolimited functionality with using 'rules'noyesyes
TriggersyesCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Ingres Replicator
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageyesnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesnoyesyes infoMVCC
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.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes, based on authentication and database rulestoken accessUsers with fine-grained authentication, authorization, and auditing controlsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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