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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Altibase vs. jBASE vs. SiriDB vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational 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	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

alasql.org

altibase.com

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

siridb.com

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

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

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

docs.siridb.com

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Altibase

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Cesbit

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2014

1999

1991

2017

2014

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

5.7

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes

Numeric data

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

HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C++
Java

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

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

simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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