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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. ObjectBox vs. Sequoiadb

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  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.Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectorsNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.41
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score13.43
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score1.10
Rank#173  Overall
#6  Object oriented DBMS
#10  Vector DBMS
Score0.39
Rank#267  Overall
#42  Document stores
#125  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
www.sequoiadb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.objectbox.iowww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014ObjectBox LimitedSequoiadb Ltd.
Initial release2014201220172013
Current release4.0 (May 2024)
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialBindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC and C++C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedAndroid
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes, plus "flex" map-like typesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regex
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 indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nonoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary native APIproprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnolimited functionality with using 'rules'noJavaScript
TriggersyesCallbacks are triggered when data changesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneData sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offlineSource-replica replication
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
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageyesACIDDocument is locked during a transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes, based on authentication and database rulesyessimple password-based access control
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