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

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsHigh performance Time Series DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Native XML DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score7.55
Rank#53  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Websitealasql.orgbasex.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.jaguardb.comkx.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.basex.orgcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmlcode.kx.com
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffBaseX GmbHIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014DataJaguar, Inc.Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc
Initial release20142007201020152000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003
Current release10.7, August 20233.3 July 20233.6, May 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3.0commercial infofree 32-bit version
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaErlangC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesq
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenono infoXQuery supports typesnoyesyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nonoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersSQL-like query language (q)
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.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
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnouser defined functions
Triggersyesyes infovia eventsyesnoyes infowith views
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processing
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagemultiple readers, single writerno infoatomic operations within a document possiblenono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsAccess rights for users can be defined per databaserights management via user accountsrights management via user accounts
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Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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