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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Altibase vs. jBASE vs. Memcached vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Altibase vs. jBASE vs. Memcached vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app development
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSMultivalue DBMSKey-value storeSearch engine
Secondary database modelsVector 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
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Websitealasql.orgaltibase.comwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasewww.memcached.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­search
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9github.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikilearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAltibaseRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)Danga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalMicrosoft
Initial release20141999199120032015
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20235.71.6.27, May 2024V1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercialOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++C
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
HP-UX
Linux
AIX
Linux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesoptionalnoyes
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 indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.ANSI SQL-92Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASICnono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Proprietary protocolRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C++
Java
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnostored procedures and stored functionsyesnono
Triggersyesyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesyesnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesnoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolyes infousing Azure authentication

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