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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. BigObject vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. jBASE vs. KeyDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. BigObject vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. jBASE vs. KeyDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonKeyDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesCloud-based data warehousing serviceA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareAn ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocols
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMSKey-value store
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score1.30
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.71
Rank#226  Overall
#33  Key-value stores
Websitealasql.orgbigobject.iowww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousewww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasegithub.com/­Snapchat/­KeyDB
keydb.dev
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.bigobject.iodocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9docs.keydb.dev
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffBigObject, Inc.IBMRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.
Initial release20142015201419912019
Current release5.7
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSD-3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
hostedAIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesoptionalpartial infoSupported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes
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.nonono infoImport/export of XML data possibleyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infoby using the Redis Search module
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization Protoco
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJava
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuaPL/SQL, SQL PLyesLua
Triggersyesnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneyesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDACIDOptimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes infoConfigurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelsimple password-based access control and ACL

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