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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Altibase vs. Bangdb vs. jBASE vs. Pinecone

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareA managed, cloud-native vector database
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Multivalue DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#347  Overall
#47  Document stores
#34  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#95  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Websitealasql.orgaltibase.combangdb.comwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasewww.pinecone.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.bangdb.comdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9docs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAltibaseSachin Sinha, BangDBRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)Pinecone Systems, Inc
Initial release20141999201219912019
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 2023BangDB 2.0, October 20215.7
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoBSD 3commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++C, C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
HP-UX
Linux
LinuxAIX
Linux
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsoptionalString, Number, Boolean
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.ANSI SQL-92SQL like support with command line toolEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C++
Java
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnostored procedures and stored functionsnoyes
Triggersyesyesyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes, run db with in-memory only modeyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes (enterprise version only)Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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