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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Axibase vs. BaseX vs. IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Native XML DBMS

Document store

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

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

Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Website

alasql.org

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

basex.org

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.jaguardb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.basex.org

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Axibase Corporation

BaseX GmbH

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

DataJaguar, Inc.

Initial release

2014

2013

2007

2010

2015

Current release

15585

10.7, August 2023

3.3 July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Erlang

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Server operating systems

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

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

XQuery supports types

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

SQL-like query language

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual 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

multiple readers, single writer

atomic operations within a document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Access rights for users can be defined per database

rights management via user accounts

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