DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Infobright vs. jBASE vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Infobright vs. jBASE vs. SQL.JS

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.49
Rank	#259	Overall
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	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	19.03
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	1.00
Rank	#193	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	1.43
Rank	#160	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.57
Rank	#248	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

aws.amazon.com/redshift

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

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

sql.js.org

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

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

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2014

2012

2005

1991

2012

Current release

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Server operating systems

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

hosted

Linux
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

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

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

restricted

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

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

except by serializing a db to a file

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

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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