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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. BaseX vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. jBASE vs. LeanXcale

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

A global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS

Key-value store

Multivalue DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

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

Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.32
Rank	#283	Overall
	#40	Key-value stores

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#291	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

basex.org

www.cloudflare.com/developer-platform/workers-kv

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

www.leanxcale.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.basex.org

developers.cloudflare.com/kv/api

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

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

BaseX GmbH

Cloudflare

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

LeanXcale

Initial release

2014

2007

2018

1991

2015

Current release

10.7, August 2023

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

optional

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.

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

through Apache Derby

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C
Java
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate 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

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

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 can be defined down to the item level

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