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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. FatDB vs. FileMaker vs. Firebase Realtime Database

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. FatDB vs. FileMaker vs. Firebase Realtime Database

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Key-value store
Relational 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
Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Websitealasql.orgwww.claris.com/­filemakerfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-database
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­database
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffFatCloudClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014
Initial release2014201219832012
Current release19.4.1, November 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC#
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)WindowsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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.noyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.no infoVia inetgration in SQL Serveryes infovia pluginsno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript API.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC#PHPJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infovia applicationsyeslimited functionality with using 'rules'
Triggersyesyes infovia applicationsyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factorSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenonoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlnono infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationssimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesyes, based on authentication and database rules

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