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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. HyperSQL vs. RavenDB vs. SwayDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
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.Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score3.23
Rank#93  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitealasql.orgfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasehsqldb.orgravendb.netswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasehsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmlravendb.net/­docs
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Hibernating RhinosSimer Plaha
Initial release20142012200120102018
Current release2.7.2, June 20235.4, July 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availableOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaC#Scala
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesLinux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnono
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noyesSQL-like query language (RQL)no
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnolimited functionality with using 'rules'Java, SQLyesno
TriggersyesCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneMulti-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate ConsistencyDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageyesACIDACID, Cluster-wide transaction availableAtomic 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 rulesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAuthorization levels configured per client per databaseno

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