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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Firebird vs. Hazelcast vs. Immudb

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Firebird vs. Hazelcast vs. Immudb

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonImmudb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseA widely adopted in-memory data gridAn open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Score0.31
Rank#295  Overall
#42  Key-value stores
Websitealasql.orgwww.firebirdsql.orghazelcast.comgithub.com/­codenotary/­immudb
immudb.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualshazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsdocs.immudb.io
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffFirebird FoundationHazelcastCodenotary
Initial release20142000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20082020
Current release5.0.0, January 20245.3.6, November 20231.2.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC and C++JavaGo
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java VMBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes
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.noyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategyno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesSQL-like query languageSQL-like syntax
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPSQLyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesno
Triggersyesyesyes infoEventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationyes infoReplicated Map
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes
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.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptRole-based access control

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