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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Altibase vs. Drizzle vs. jBASE vs. mSQL

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Relational 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	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

altibase.com

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

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

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

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

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Altibase

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Hughes Technologies

Initial release

2014

1999

2008

1991

1994

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

7.2.4, September 2012

5.7

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

free licenses can be provided

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

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

AIX
Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

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

ANSI SQL-92

yes

with proprietary extensions

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C++
Java

C
C++
Java
PHP

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

Triggers

yes

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

none

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

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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