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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Altibase vs. Firebird vs. LokiJS

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseIn-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Wide column storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.31
Rank#297  Overall
#11  Wide column stores
Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websitealasql.orgwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storealtibase.comwww.firebirdsql.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoregithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualswww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualstechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAlibabaAltibaseFirebird Foundation
Initial release2014201619992000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2014
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20235.0.0, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercialcommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++C and C++JavaScript
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noANSI SQL-92yesno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJava
Python
C
C++
Java
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonostored procedures and stored functionsPSQLView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyesnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageAtomic single-row operationsACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.
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 based on subaccounts and tokensfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptno

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