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

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Key-value store

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

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	1.08
Rank	#183	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

bigobject.io

github.com/boltdb/bolt

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

gitee.com/opengauss
opengauss.org

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.bigobject.io

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

docs.opengauss.org/en
gitee.com/opengauss/docs

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

BigObject, Inc.

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Huawei and openGauss community

Initial release

2014

2015

2013

1991

2019

Current release

5.7

3.0, March 2022

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

C, C++, Java

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

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

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

ANSI SQL 2011

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

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

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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