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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Firebird vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. H2

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBase

Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	21.06
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	8.96
Rank	#48	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	8.22
Rank	#50	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.firebirdsql.org

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

www.h2database.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Firebird Foundation

Google

Thomas Mueller

Initial release

2014

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2017

2005

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

2.2.220, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

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

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

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

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Triggers

yes

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

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

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Features a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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