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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. BaseX vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. OpenTenBase

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.

An enterprise-level distributed HTAP open source database based on PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

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

Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	7.36
Rank	#53	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#370	Overall
	#156	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

basex.org

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

github.com/OpenTenBase/OpenTenBase
www.opentenbase.org

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.basex.org

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

docs.opentenbase.org
docs.opentenbase.org/en

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

BaseX GmbH

Google

OpenAtom Foundation, previously Tencent

Initial release

2014

2007

2017

Current release

11.0, June 2024

2.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Open Source

BSD-3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python

C
Go
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

Triggers

yes

via events

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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