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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Altibase vs. CouchDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Altibase vs. CouchDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. TerminusDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeDocument storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionDocument store
RDF store
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
Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score8.30
Rank#47  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitealasql.orgaltibase.comcouchdb.apache.orgfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databaseterminusdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablefirebase.google.com/­docs/­databaseterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAltibaseApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014DataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20141999200520122018
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20233.3.3, December 202311.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++ErlangProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyesyes
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 indexesnoyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.ANSI SQL-92nonoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C++
Java
C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnostored procedures and stored functionsView functions in JavaScriptlimited functionality with using 'rules'yes
TriggersyesyesyesCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0Graph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Journaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDno infoatomic operations within a single document possibleyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseyes, based on authentication and database rulesRole-based access control

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