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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache Drill vs. DolphinDB vs. jBASE vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

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

Time Series DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

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

drill.apache.org

www.dolphindb.com

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

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

drill.apache.org/docs

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

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

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Apache Software Foundation

DolphinDB, Inc

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2014

2012

2018

1991

2018

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

v2.00.4, January 2022

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache Version 2

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
OS X
Windows

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.

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

SQL-like query language

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

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#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

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

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

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

Depending on the underlying data source

Administrators, Users, Groups

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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