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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Altibase vs. jBASE vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

An online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on Greenplum

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	0.68
Rank	#231	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

altibase.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/analyticdb-for-postgresql/latest/product-introduction-overview

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Altibase

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

8Kdata

Initial release

2014

2016

1999

1991

2016

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Java

Server operating systems

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

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

AIX
Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

yes

ANSI SQL-92

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

C
C++
Java

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights for users and roles

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