DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud ApsaraDB for PolarDB vs. Infobright vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud ApsaraDB for PolarDB vs. Infobright vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

A cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.55
Rank	#230	Overall
	#35	Document stores
	#111	Relational DBMS

Score	0.52
Rank	#237	Overall
	#113	Relational DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#173	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Score	5.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#40	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#350	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

alasql.org

www.alibabacloud.com/product/polardb

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

www.sap.com/products/sql-anywhere.html

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

github.com/agershun/alasql

www.alibabacloud.com/help/doc-detail/58764.htm

help.sap.com/sql-anywhere

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Alibaba

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

SAP

formerly Sybase

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2014

2005

1992

2020

Current release

17, July 2015

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

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

hosted

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

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

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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