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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigchainDB vs. jBASE

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigchainDB vs. jBASE

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Wide column storeKey-value storeDocument storeMultivalue DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.31
Rank#297  Overall
#11  Wide column stores
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score1.49
Rank#156  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storeaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.bigchaindb.comwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbase
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAlibabaAmazonRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)
Initial release20142016200720161991
Current release5.7
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptPython
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedhostedLinuxAIX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnonooptional
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesnonoyes infoAll columns are indexed automatically
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nononoEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIHTTP APIRESTful HTTP APICLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJava
Python
.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesselectable replication factoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageAtomic single-row operationsno infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)yesAccess rights can be defined down to the item level

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