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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. ObjectBox vs. SwayDB vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

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.

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

alasql.org

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

objectbox.io

swaydb.simer.au

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

firebase.google.com/docs/database

docs.objectbox.io

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Google

acquired by Google 2014

ObjectBox Limited

Simer Plaha

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2014

2012

2017

2018

2009

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

commercial

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 and C++

Scala

Server operating systems

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

hosted

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

online/offline synchronization between client and server

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

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

Atomic execution of operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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