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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Altibase vs. chDB vs. Ehcache vs. jBASE

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

An embedded SQL OLAP Engine powered by ClickHouse

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Multivalue DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	4.89
Rank	#67	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Website

alasql.org

altibase.com

github.com/chdb-io/chdb

www.ehcache.org

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

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

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

doc.chdb.io

www.ehcache.org/documentation

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

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Altibase

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Initial release

2014

1999

2023

2009

1991

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

3.10.0, March 2022

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Java

Server operating systems

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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

server-less

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JCache

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C++
Java

Bun
C
C++
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Java

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

by using Terracotta Server

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

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

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

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

using a tiered cache-storage approach

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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