DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Drill vs. jBASE vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Drill vs. jBASE vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Hosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	74.07
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	1.95
Rank	#127	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

alasql.org

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

drill.apache.org

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

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

drill.apache.org/docs

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

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2014

2012

1991

2012

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

5.7

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

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

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

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

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

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

ACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and region

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

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Depending on the underlying data source

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes

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