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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. RavenDB vs. YottaDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonYottaDB  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.Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseA fast and solid embedded Key-value store
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeDocument storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS infousing the Octo plugin
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score2.92
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score0.20
Rank#317  Overall
#47  Key-value stores
Websitealasql.orgfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databaseravendb.netyottadb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databaseravendb.net/­docsyottadb.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Hibernating RhinosYottaDB, LLC
Initial release2014201220102001
Current release5.4, July 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availableOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC#C
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Docker
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnono
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noSQL-like query language (RQL)by using the Octo plugin
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
PostgreSQL wire protocol infousing the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnolimited functionality with using 'rules'yes
TriggersyesCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
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.
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageyesACID, Cluster-wide transaction availableoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
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.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes, based on authentication and database rulesAuthorization levels configured per client per databaseUsers and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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