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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Firebird vs. Rockset vs. STSdb vs. Trino

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTrino  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodFast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Score5.00
Rank#66  Overall
#36  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.firebirdsql.orgrockset.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4trino.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.rockset.comtrino.io/­broadcast
trino.io/­docs/­current
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeGitHub
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffFirebird FoundationRocksetSTS Soft SCTrino Software Foundation
Initial release20142000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase201920112012 info2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL
Current release5.0.0, January 20244.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicensecommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC and C++C++C#Java
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
hostedWindowsLinux
macOS infofor devlopment
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesdynamic typingyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes
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.nono infoingestion from XML files supportedno
Secondary indexesnoyesall fields are automatically indexednodepending on connected data-source
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP REST.NET Client APIJDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPSQLnonoyes, depending on connected data-source
Triggersyesyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneAutomatic shardingnonedepending on connected data-source
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationyesnonedepending on connected data-source
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistencydepending on connected data-source
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDnonodepending on connected data-source
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesdepending on connected data-source
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consolenoSQL standard access control
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AlaSQLFirebirdRocksetSTSdbTrino
Specific characteristicsTrino is the fastest open source, massively parallel processing SQL query engine...
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Competitive advantagesHigh performance analtyics and data processing of very large data sets Powerful ANSI...
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Typical application scenariosPerformant analytics query engine for data warehouses, data lakes, and data lakehouses...
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Key customersTrino is widely adopted across the globe as freely-available open source software....
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Market metrics33000+ commits in GitHub 8200+ stargazers in GitHub 1200+ pull requests merged in...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTrino is an open source project and usage is therefore free. Commercial offerings...
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