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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. BaseX vs. IBM Db2 vs. SiriDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

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Trend Chart

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

Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	128.46
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

alasql.org

basex.org

www.ibm.com/products/db2

siridb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.basex.org

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

BaseX GmbH

IBM

Cesbit

Initial release

2014

2007

1983

host version

2017

Current release

10.7, August 2023

12.1, October 2016

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

free version is available

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

Numeric data

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

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