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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. EJDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Ingres vs. LokiJS

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Well established RDBMSIn-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#297  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websitealasql.orggithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.actian.com/­ingrestechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffSoftmotionsGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Actian Corporation
Initial release2014201220121974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s2014
Current release11.2, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoGPLv2commercialcommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptCCJavaScript
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)server-lesshostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesyesno
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.nonono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableno
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIin-process shared libraryAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonolimited functionality with using 'rules'yesView functions in JavaScript
TriggersyesnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonehorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslynone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneIngres Replicatornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoyesACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyes infoMVCC
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoyes, based on authentication and database rulesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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