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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache Drill vs. jBASE vs. OpenQM vs. SQL.JS

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

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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	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#298	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

drill.apache.org

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

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

sql.js.org

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

drill.apache.org/docs

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

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Apache Software Foundation

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2014

2012

1991

1993

2012

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

5.7

3.4-12

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Server operating systems

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

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

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

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

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C++

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

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

none

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

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

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

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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