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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Sequoiadb vs. Spark SQL

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  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.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeDocument storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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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
Score0.45
Rank#261  Overall
#41  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.sequoiadb.comspark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Sequoiadb Ltd.Apache Software Foundation
Initial release20142012201020132014
Current release3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptErlangC++Scala
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedhostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyes
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 indexesnoyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nonoSQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIproprietary protocol using JSONJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnolimited functionality with using 'rules'View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptJavaScriptno
TriggersyesCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
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 Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageyesno infoatomic operations within a document possibleDocument is locked during a transactionno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
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 rulesAccess rights for users can be defined per databasesimple password-based access controlno

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