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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. FoundationDB vs. jBASE vs. SwayDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Multivalue DBMSKey-value 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
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score1.03
Rank#190  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#89  Relational DBMS
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitealasql.orgfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbaseswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databaseapple.github.io/­foundationdbdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014FoundationDBRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)Simer Plaha
Initial release20142012201319912018
Current release6.2.28, November 20205.7
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++Scala
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free infosome layers support schemasschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesno infosome layers support typingoptionalno
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nosupported in specific SQL layer onlyEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnolimited functionality with using 'rules'in SQL-layer onlyyesno
TriggersyesCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Linearizable consistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoin SQL-layer onlynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageyesACIDACIDAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes, based on authentication and database rulesnoAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelno

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