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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Altibase vs. Apache Druid vs. Coveo vs. jBASE

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Altibase vs. Apache Druid vs. Coveo vs. jBASE

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonCoveo  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataAI-powered hosted search, recommendation and personalization platform providing tools for both low-code and full-code developmentA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Search engineMultivalue DBMS
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#114  Overall
#11  Search engines
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Websitealasql.orgaltibase.comdruid.apache.orgwww.coveo.comwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbase
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.coveo.comdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAltibaseApache Software Foundation and contributorsCoveoRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)
Initial release20141999201220121991
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 202329.0.1, April 20245.7
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache license v2commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++Java
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
OS X
Unix
hostedAIX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infoschema-less columns are supportedhybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configurationschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesoptional
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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.ANSI SQL-92SQL for queryingnoEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C++
Java
Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnostored procedures and stored functionsnonoyes
Triggersyesyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedyesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDnoyesACID
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.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemgranular access controls, API key management, content filtersAccess rights can be defined down to the item level

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