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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. jBASE vs. openGemini

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Cloud 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.

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

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

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Multivalue DBMS

Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	7.85
Rank	#51	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#375	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Website

alasql.org

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

www.opengemini.org
github.com/openGemini

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

docs.opengemini.org/guide

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Google

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Huawei and openGemini community

Initial release

2014

2017

1991

2022

Current release

5.7

1.1, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

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

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

Integer, Float, Boolean, String

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

yes

Triggers

yes

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

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

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Administrators and common users accounts

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