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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. BaseX vs. Firebird vs. jBASE vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. BaseX vs. Firebird vs. jBASE vs. TerminusDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Native XML DBMSRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitealasql.orgbasex.orgwww.firebirdsql.orgwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbaseterminusdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.basex.orgwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9terminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffBaseX GmbHFirebird FoundationRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)DataChemist Ltd.
Initial release201420072000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase19912018
Current release10.7, August 20235.0.0, January 20245.711.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicensecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaC and C++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenono infoXQuery supports typesyesoptionalyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noyesEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesPSQLyesyes
Triggersyesyes infovia eventsyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneShardingGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneSource-replica replicationyesJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagemultiple readers, single writerACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelRole-based access control

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