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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. BaseX vs. RDF4J vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. BaseX vs. RDF4J vs. SQL.JS

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS

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	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

rdf4j.org/documentation

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

BaseX GmbH

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2014

2007

2004

2012

Current release

10.7, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

no

no

no

no

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

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

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

no

no

XQuery supports types

yes

yes

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.

no

no

Secondary indexes

no

yes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

no

no

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

no

yes

yes

no

Triggers

yes

yes

via events

yes

no

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

none

none

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

none

none

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

no

no

no

no

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

no

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

Isolation support depends on the API used

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

no

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

yes

User concepts

Access control

no

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

no

no

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