DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Cubrid vs. Interbase vs. Transwarp KunDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Cubrid vs. Interbase vs. Transwarp KunDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

CUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTP

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

OLTP DBMS based on a distributed architecture and highly compatible with MySQL and Oracle

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
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Score	74.45
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	1.04
Rank	#187	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#341	Overall
	#149	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

cubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/kundb

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

cubrid.org/manuals

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Amazon

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Embarcadero

Transwarp

Initial release

2014

2012

2008

1984

Current release

11.0, January 2021

InterBase 2020, December 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C, C++, Java

Server operating systems

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

hosted

Linux
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Source-replica replication

Interbase Change Views

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

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

Multiversion concurreny control

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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