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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. atoti vs. EJDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. LokiJS

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

An in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Document store

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	0.56
Rank	#245	Overall
	#10	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Website

alasql.org

atoti.io

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.atoti.io

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

firebase.google.com/docs/database

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

ActiveViam

Softmotions

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Initial release

2014

2012

2014

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

free versions available

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

server-less

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

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

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

in-process shared library

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

limited functionality with using 'rules'

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

yes

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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