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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. openGemini vs. PieCloudDB vs. RavenDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

An open source distributed Time Series DBMS with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalability

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.09
Rank	#361	Overall
	#37	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.32
Rank	#289	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	2.84
Rank	#101	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Website

alasql.org

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.opengemini.org
github.com/openGemini

www.openpie.com

ravendb.net

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

firebase.google.com/docs/database

docs.opengemini.org/guide

ravendb.net/docs

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Huawei and openGemini community

OpenPie

Hibernating Rhinos

Initial release

2014

2012

2022

2010

Current release

1.1, July 2023

2.1, January 2023

5.4, July 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

hosted

Linux
Windows

hosted

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Integer, Float, Boolean, String

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

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language (RQL)

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

Immediate Consistency

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

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

ACID

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Administrators and common users accounts

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

Authorization levels configured per client per database

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