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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. ArangoDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. IBM Cloudant vs. SiteWhere

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonArangoDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryNative multi-model DBMS for graph, document, key/value and search. All in one engine and accessible with one query language.Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine
Document storeDocument storeTime Series DBMS
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score3.32
Rank#90  Overall
#15  Document stores
#5  Graph DBMS
#12  Key-value stores
#10  Search engines
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Websitealasql.orgarangodb.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.arangodb.comfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeFacebookInstagram
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffArangoDB Inc.Google infoacquired by Google 2014IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014SiteWhere
Initial release20142012201220102010
Current release3.11.5, November 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++ErlangJava
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infoautomatically recognizes schema within a collectionschema-freeschema-freepredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infostring, double, boolean, list, hashyesnoyes
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 indexesnoyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nononono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIAQL
Foxx Framework
Graph API (Gremlin)
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Java & SpringData
JSON style queries
VelocyPack/VelocyStream
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC#
C++
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Rust
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJavaScriptlimited functionality with using 'rules'View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
TriggersyesnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infosince version 2.0ShardingSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication with configurable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infocan be done with stored procedures in JavaScriptnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infoconfigurable per collection or per write
Immediate Consistency
OneShard (highly available, fault-tolerant deployment mode with ACID semantics)
Eventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes inforelationships in graphsnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDyesno infoatomic operations within a document possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseUsers with fine-grained authorization concept
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AlaSQLArangoDBFirebase Realtime DatabaseIBM CloudantSiteWhere
Specific characteristicsGraph and Beyond. With more than 11,000 stargazers on GitHub, ArangoDB is the leading...
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Competitive advantagesConsolidation: As a native multi-model database, can be used as a full blown document...
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Typical application scenariosNative multi-model in ArangoDB is being used for a broad range of projects across...
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Key customersCisco, Barclays, Refinitive, Siemens Mentor, Kabbage, Liaison, Douglas, MakeMyTrip,...
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Market metricsArangoDB is the leading native multi-model database with over 11,000 stargazers on...
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Licensing and pricing modelsVery permissive Apache 2 License for Community Edition & commercial licenses are...
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