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

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonRisingWave  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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 accessOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareA distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Wide column storeDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Multivalue DBMSRelational DBMS
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
Score1.03
Rank#190  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#89  Relational DBMS
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.58
Rank#242  Overall
#111  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasewww.risingwave.com/­database
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoreapple.github.io/­foundationdbdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9docs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­intro
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAlibabaFoundationDBRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)RisingWave Labs
Initial release20142016201319912022
Current release6.2.28, November 20205.71.2, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++Rust
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free infosome layers support schemasschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesno infosome layers support typingoptionalStandard SQL-types and JSON
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnononoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nosupported in specific SQL layer onlyEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJava
Python
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoin SQL-layer onlyyesUDFs in Python or Java
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesyes
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 integrityyesnoin SQL-layer onlynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageAtomic single-row operationsACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
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.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensnoAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelUsers and Roles

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