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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. BaseX vs. Faircom DB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. BaseX vs. Faircom DB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. ToroDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom DB infoformerly c-treeACE  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Native high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.A multi-model DBMS and application serverA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Native XML DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Document store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#318  Overall
#48  Key-value stores
#141  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgbasex.orgwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-dbwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachegithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.basex.orgdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.htmldocs.intersystems.com
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffBaseX GmbHFairCom CorporationInterSystems8Kdata
Initial release20142007197919972016
Current release10.7, August 2023V12, November 20202018.1.4, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercial infoRestricted, free version availablecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaANSI C, C++Java
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows infoeasily portable to other OSs
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,depending on used data modelschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenono infoXQuery supports typesyes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structuresyesyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noyes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic
C#
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++yes
Triggersyesyes infovia eventsyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneFile partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding infoCustomizable business rules for table partitioningnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneyes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).Source-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagemultiple readers, single writertunable from ACID to Eventually ConsistentACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesYes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memoryyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for filesAccess rights for users, groups and rolesAccess rights for users and roles

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