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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. FileMaker vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. TDengine

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryFileMaker 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.Widely used in-process key-value storeTime Series DBMS and big data platform
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score2.01
Rank#126  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.claris.com/­filemakerfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlgithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmldocs.tdengine.com
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Oracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleTDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release20141983201219942019
Current release19.4.1, November 202118.1.40, May 20203.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infocommercial license availableOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)C
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedAIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
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.noyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatnoyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML editionno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yes infovia pluginsnoyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availableStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applications
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptPHPJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyeslimited functionality with using 'rules'nono
TriggersyesyesCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes infoonly for the SQL APIyes, via alarm monitoring
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Source-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesyes, based on authentication and database rulesnoyes
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AlaSQLFileMakerFirebase Realtime DatabaseOracle Berkeley DBTDengine
Specific characteristicsTDengineā„¢ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
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Competitive advantagesHigh Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Typical application scenariosTDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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Market metricsTDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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