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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Firebolt vs. IRONdb vs. OpenQM

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Firebolt vs. IRONdb vs. OpenQM

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryHighly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSMultivalue 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
Score1.90
Rank#134  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#298  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.firebolt.iowww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qm
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.firebolt.iodocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffFirebolt Analytics Inc.Circonus LLC.Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips
Initial release2014202020171993
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20183.4-12
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC and C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinuxAIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes infowith some exceptions
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infotext, numeric, histograms
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)no
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript API.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptGo
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes, in Luayes
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonedepending on storage layerconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoAccess rights can be defined down to the item level

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