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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Kingbase vs. LeanXcale vs. mSQL

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonLeanXcale  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  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.An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilitiesmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial 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
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.50
Rank#257  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Score0.36
Rank#280  Overall
#40  Key-value stores
#129  Relational DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#169  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.kingbase.com.cnwww.leanxcale.comhughestech.com.au/­products/­msql
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlfirebase.google.com/­docs/­database
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.LeanXcaleHughes Technologies
Initial release20142012199920151994
Current releaseV8.0, August 20214.4, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial infofree licenses can be provided
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC and JavaC
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinux
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noStandard with numerous extensionsyes infothrough Apache DerbyA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C
Java
Scala
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnolimited functionality with using 'rules'user defined functionsno
TriggersyesCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesnone
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
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageyesACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesno
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.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes, based on authentication and database rulesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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