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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. jBASE vs. Splice Machine vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. jBASE vs. Splice Machine vs. SQL.JS

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and SparkPort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Search engineMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.49
Rank#259  Overall
#40  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score1.87
Rank#140  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score1.43
Rank#160  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#255  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Score0.57
Rank#248  Overall
#114  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasesplicemachine.comsql.js.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9splicemachine.com/­how-it-workssql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAmazonRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)Splice MachineAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release20142012199120142012
Current release5.73.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedAIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesoptionalyesyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesnoyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICyesyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesyes infoJavano
Triggersyesnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infomanaged transparently by AWSyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoYes, via Full Spark Integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoauthentication via encrypted signaturesAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardno

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