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System Properties Comparison AriaSQL vs. Firebase Realtime Database

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Name

Description

AriaSQL is a relational database server. Implements ANSI SQL.

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

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Score	13.43
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Website

ariasql.com
github.com/ariasql

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Initial release

2024

2012

Current release

Alpha development phase

License

Commercial or Open Source

AGPL

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

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

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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