DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. BigObject vs. jBASE vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. BigObject vs. jBASE vs. SQL.JS

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Name

This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

bigobject.io

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

sql.js.org

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.bigobject.io

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

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Atos Convergence Creators

BigObject, Inc.

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2014

2016

2015

1991

2012

Current release

1703

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

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

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

AIX
Linux
Windows

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

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

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-like DML and DDL statements

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

LDAP

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

All languages with LDAP bindings

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

cell division

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

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 or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

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

LDAP bind authentication

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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