DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. jBASE vs. SQL.JS vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. jBASE vs. SQL.JS vs. WakandaDB

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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.

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
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Score	0.66
Rank	#235	Overall
	#108	Relational DBMS

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#356	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.alibabacloud.com/product/polardb

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

sql.js.org

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/polardb/product-overview

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

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Alibaba

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2014

1991

2012

Current release

5.7

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

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

hosted

AIX
Linux
Windows

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

JavaScript API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java
Python

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

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

except by serializing a db to a file

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

yes

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