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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Dolt vs. FoundationDB vs. jBASE

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Dolt vs. FoundationDB vs. jBASE

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonDolt  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessA MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schemaOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Wide column storeRelational DBMSDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Multivalue DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score0.96
Rank#193  Overall
#90  Relational DBMS
Score1.03
Rank#190  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#89  Relational DBMS
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storegithub.com/­dolthub/­dolt
www.dolthub.com
github.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbase
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredocs.dolthub.comapple.github.io/­foundationdbdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAlibabaDoltHub IncFoundationDBRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)
Initial release20142016201820131991
Current release6.2.28, November 20205.7
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptGoC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free infosome layers support schemasschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesno infosome layers support typingoptional
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 indexesnonoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noyessupported in specific SQL layer onlyEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIHTTP APICLI Client
HTTP REST
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJava
Python
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infocurrently in alpha releasein SQL-layer onlyyes
Triggersyesnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceA database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.yesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyLinearizable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesin SQL-layer onlyno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageAtomic single-row operationsACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes
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 tokensOnly one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startupnoAccess rights can be defined down to the item level

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