DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Altibase vs. Amazon Redshift vs. jBASE vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Altibase vs. Amazon Redshift vs. jBASE vs. SurrealDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
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Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
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Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#203	Overall
	#34	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

alasql.org

altibase.com

aws.amazon.com/redshift

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

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

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

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Altibase

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2014

1999

2012

1991

2022

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

5.7

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Rust

Server operating systems

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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

hosted

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

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

ANSI SQL-92

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C++
Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

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

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, based on authentication and database rules

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