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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. BaseX vs. Firebird vs. YottaDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBase

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	20.50
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#306	Overall
	#44	Key-value stores

Website

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.basex.org

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

BaseX GmbH

Firebird Foundation

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2014

2007

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2001

Current release

11.0, June 2024

5.0.0, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

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.

yes

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PSQL

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Features a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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