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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. GeoSpock vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. H2 vs. SiriDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. GeoSpock vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. H2 vs. SiriDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS librarySpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleCloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Open Source Time Series DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score7.36
Rank#53  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#378  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Websitealasql.orggeospock.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorewww.h2database.comsiridb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestorewww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldocs.siridb.com
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffGeoSpockGoogleThomas MuellerCesbit
Initial release2014201720052017
Current release2.0, September 20192.2.220, July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJava, JavascriptJavaC
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedhostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes infoNumeric data
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 indexesnotemporal, categoricalyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)noyesno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBCAndroid
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptGo
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
JavaC
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud FunctionsJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsno
Triggersyesnoyes, with Cloud Functionsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic shardingShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoUsing Cloud Dataflownono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoyesACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
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.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per tableAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accounts

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