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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. BigObject vs. BoltDB vs. jBASE vs. PouchDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

An embedded key-value store for Go.

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Key-value store

Multivalue DBMS

Document store

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Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
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Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Website

alasql.org

bigobject.io

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

pouchdb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.bigobject.io

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

BigObject, Inc.

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2014

2015

2013

1991

2012

Current release

5.7

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Server operating systems

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

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

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

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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