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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Firebolt vs. PostGIS vs. Quasardb

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryHighly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseSpatial extension of PostgreSQLDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#140  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.firebolt.iopostgis.netquasar.ai
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.firebolt.iopostgis.net/­documentationdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffFirebolt Analytics Inc.quasardb
Initial release2014202020052009
Current release3.4.2, February 20243.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptCC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes infointeger and binary
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript API.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptGo
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsno
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonedepending on storage layeryes infobased on PostgreSQLSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infobased on PostgreSQLCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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