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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Altibase vs. Firebird vs. jBASE vs. KeyDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Altibase vs. Firebird vs. jBASE vs. KeyDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonKeyDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareAn ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocols
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMSKey-value store
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.71
Rank#226  Overall
#33  Key-value stores
Websitealasql.orgaltibase.comwww.firebirdsql.orgwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasegithub.com/­Snapchat/­KeyDB
keydb.dev
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualswww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9docs.keydb.dev
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAltibaseFirebird FoundationRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.
Initial release201419992000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase19912019
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20235.0.0, January 20245.7
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicensecommercialOpen Source infoBSD-3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++C and C++C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
HP-UX
Linux
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesoptionalpartial infoSupported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infoby using the Redis Search module
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.ANSI SQL-92yesEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization Protoco
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C++
Java
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnostored procedures and stored functionsPSQLyesLua
Triggersyesyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesSource-replica replicationyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDACIDOptimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes infoConfigurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelsimple password-based access control and ACL

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