DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Altibase vs. jBASE vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Altibase vs. jBASE vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.35
Rank	#268	Overall
	#42	Document stores
	#123	Relational DBMS

Score	0.82
Rank	#204	Overall
	#95	Relational DBMS

Score	1.45
Rank	#147	Overall
	#4	Multivalue DBMS

Score	2.87
Rank	#88	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#381	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

alasql.org

altibase.com

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

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

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

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

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Altibase

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

SAP

formerly Sybase

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2014

1999

1991

1992

2016

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

5.7

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a 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

AIX
Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C++
Java

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

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

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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