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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. jBASE vs. LeanXcale vs. PouchDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonLeanXcale  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareA highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilitiesJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSMultivalue DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.59
Rank#241  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#291  Overall
#41  Key-value stores
#132  Relational DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitealasql.orgwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasewww.leanxcale.compouchdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9pouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAlibabaRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)LeanXcaleApache Software Foundation
Initial release2014199120152012
Current release5.77.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaScript
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedAIX
Linux
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesoptionalno
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.noyesyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICyes infothrough Apache Derbyno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJava
Python
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
C
Java
Scala
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyesView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelno
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