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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Altibase vs. DataFS

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

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Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#354	Overall
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Website

alasql.org

altibase.com

newdatabase.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

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

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Altibase

Mobiland AG

Initial release

2014

1999

2018

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

1.1.263, October 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

ANSI SQL-92

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C++
Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

Triggers

yes

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Proprietary Sharding system

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

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

Windows-Profile

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