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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. ClickHouse vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. LokiJS vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. ClickHouse vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. LokiJS vs. SiteWhere

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonClickHouse  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.In-memory JavaScript DBMSM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeDocument storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.41
Rank#262  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score16.25
Rank#37  Overall
#22  Relational DBMS
Score13.59
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.41
Rank#263  Overall
#41  Document stores
Score0.07
Rank#345  Overall
#31  Time Series DBMS
Websitealasql.orgclickhouse.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlclickhouse.com/­docsfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasetechfort.github.io/­LokiJSsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffClickhouse Inc.Google infoacquired by Google 2014SiteWhere
Initial release20142016201220142010
Current releasev24.6.2.17-stable, July 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++JavaScriptJava
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
hostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freepredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnoyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infovia viewsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)nonono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIgRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript APIHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC# info3rd party library
C++
Elixir info3rd party library
Go info3rd party library
Java info3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party library
Kotlin info3rd party library
Nim info3rd party library
Perl info3rd party library
PHP info3rd party library
Python info3rd party library
R info3rd party library
Ruby info3rd party library
Rust
Scala info3rd party library
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyeslimited functionality with using 'rules'View functions in JavaScript
TriggersyesnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonekey based and customnoneSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneAsynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.noneselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
noneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoyesno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.yes, based on authentication and database rulesnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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