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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. LokiJS vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

Description

A stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database service

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Document store
Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/time-series-database/latest/what-is-tsdb

firebase.google.com/docs/database

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Alibaba

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2012

2014

2013

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

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

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

Java

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

JavaScript

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

View functions in JavaScript

JavaScript

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Document is locked during a transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

Access managed on TSDB instance level

yes, based on authentication and database rules

simple password-based access control

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