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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. NuoDB vs. RavenDB vs. RethinkDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.42
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	13.60
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.87
Rank	#201	Overall
	#94	Relational DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#102	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	2.58
Rank	#105	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Website

alasql.org

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

ravendb.net

rethinkdb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

firebase.google.com/docs/database

doc.nuodb.com

ravendb.net/docs

rethinkdb.com/docs

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Hibernating Rhinos

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Initial release

2014

2012

2013

2010

2009

Current release

5.4, July 2022

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

yes

SQL-like query language (RQL)

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
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 languages

JavaScript

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

Java, SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

Sharding

range based

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Immediate Consistency

Default 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

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

yes

ACID

tunable commit protocol

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

Atomic single-document operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

MVCC based

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Temporary table

User concepts

Access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

Authorization levels configured per client per database

yes

users and table-level permissions

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