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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Altibase vs. Dragonfly vs. Faircom EDGE vs. jBASE

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Altibase vs. Dragonfly vs. Faircom EDGE vs. jBASE

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceFairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environmentsA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Multivalue 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
Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score0.41
Rank#266  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score0.02
Rank#368  Overall
#54  Key-value stores
#156  Relational DBMS
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Websitealasql.orgaltibase.comgithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgewww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbase
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualswww.dragonflydb.io/­docsdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmldocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAltibaseDragonflyDB team and community contributorsFairCom CorporationRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)
Initial release20141999202319791991
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20231.0, March 2023V3, October 20205.7
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoBSL 1.1commercial infoRestricted, free version availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++C++ANSI C, C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
HP-UX
Linux
LinuxAndroid
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesscheme-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesoptional
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.nononoyesyes
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.ANSI SQL-92noyes infoANSI SQL queriesEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C++
Java
C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnostored procedures and stored functionsLuayes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++yes
Triggersyesyespublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesSource-replica replicationyes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes infowhen using SQLno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, strict serializability by the serveryes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyes
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.yesyesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardPassword-based authenticationFine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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