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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. AntDB vs. DolphinDB vs. jBASE vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

A scalable, multi-tenant, MPP-architectured RDBMS for OLTP and OLAP operations, highly compatible with Oracle

DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.25
Rank	#303	Overall
	#137	Relational DBMS

Score	4.13
Rank	#80	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Website

alasql.org

www.asiainfo.com/en_us/product_aisware_antdb_detail.html

www.dolphindb.com

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

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.dolphindb.cn/en/help200/index.html

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

Social network pages

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

AsiaInfo Technologies Limited

DolphinDB, Inc

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2014

2018

1991

2018

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

free community version available

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

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

Linux
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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.

SQL2016 compliant

SQL-like query language

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC

JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

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

yes

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

yes

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

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

Administrators, Users, Groups

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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