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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. OpenEdge vs. PouchDB vs. SQream DB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  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.Application development environment with integrated database management systemJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.42
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score13.60
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score3.69
Rank#78  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Score2.18
Rank#114  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.62
Rank#234  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.progress.com/­openedgepouchdb.comsqream.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestpouchdb.com/­guidesdocs.sqream.com
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Progress Software CorporationApache Software FoundationSQream Technologies
Initial release20142012198420122017
Current releaseOpenEdge 12.2, March 20207.1.1, June 20192022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaScriptC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnoyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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 infovia viewsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noyes infoclose to SQL 92noyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)JavaScriptC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnolimited functionality with using 'rules'yesView functions in JavaScriptuser defined functions in Python
TriggersyesCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4Sharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungehorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
none
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 ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageyesACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes, based on authentication and database rulesUsers and groupsno

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