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

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

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Name

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Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

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

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.49
Rank	#259	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	61.90
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	1.43
Rank	#160	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.57
Rank	#248	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

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

cloud.google.com/bigquery

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

sql.js.org

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

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

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Atos Convergence Creators

Google

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2014

2016

2010

1991

2012

Current release

1703

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

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

Linux

hosted

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.

yes

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

LDAP

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

All languages with LDAP bindings

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

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

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

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

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

LDAP bind authentication

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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