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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Altibase vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. OrigoDB vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Altibase vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. OrigoDB vs. RDF4J

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.A fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
RDF store
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#53  Document stores
#20  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websitealasql.orgaltibase.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databaseorigodb.comrdf4j.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databaseorigodb.com/­docsrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAltibaseGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Robert Friberg et alSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release2014199920122009 infounder the name LiveDB2004
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++C#Java
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
HP-UX
Linux
hostedLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyes
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 infocan be achieved using .NET
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.ANSI SQL-92nonono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C++
Java
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
.NetJava
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnostored procedures and stored functionslimited functionality with using 'rules'yesyes
TriggersyesyesCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes infoDomain Eventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnodepending on model
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDyesACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes infoWrite ahead logyes infoin-memory storage is supported as well
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes, based on authentication and database rulesRole based authorizationno

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