DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Bangdb vs. jBASE vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Bangdb vs. jBASE vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SQL.JS

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

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

Score	0.08
Rank	#347	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

bangdb.com

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

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

sql.js.org

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.bangdb.com

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

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Oracle

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2014

2012

1991

2007

2012

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

5.7

14.1, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C, C++

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

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

Linux

AIX
Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

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

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

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

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL like support with command line tool

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

.Net
C++
Java

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

yes

yes, with selectable consistency level

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Eventual Consistency
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

configurable

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

optionally

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

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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