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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. ArangoDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. OrientDB vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Native 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.

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	3.32
Rank	#90	Overall
	#15	Document stores
	#5	Graph DBMS
	#12	Key-value stores
	#10	Search engines

Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	3.19
Rank	#93	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#7	Graph DBMS
	#14	Key-value stores

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

arangodb.com

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

orientdb.org

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.arangodb.com

firebase.google.com/docs/database

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Social network pages

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

ArangoDB Inc.

Google

acquired by Google 2014

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2014

2012

2010

2000

Current release

3.11.5, November 2023

3.2.29, March 2024

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) available

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Java

Server operating systems

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

automatically recognizes schema within a collection

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, double, boolean, list, hash

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like query language, no joins

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

AQL
Foxx Framework
Graph API (Gremlin)
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Java & SpringData
JSON style queries
VelocyPack/VelocyStream

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C#
C++
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Rust

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

limited functionality with using 'rules'

Java, Javascript

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

since version 2.0

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication with configurable replication factor

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be done with stored procedures in JavaScript

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

configurable per collection or per write
Immediate Consistency
OneShard (highly available, fault-tolerant deployment mode with ACID semantics)

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

relationship in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

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

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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