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

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

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  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 middlewareA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMS
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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
Score2.32
Rank#112  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgbigobject.iowww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousewww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasemaxdb.sap.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.bigobject.iodocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9maxdb.sap.com/­documentation
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffBigObject, Inc.IBMRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997
Initial release20142015201419911984
Current release5.77.9.10.12, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialcommercialcommercial infoLimited community edition free
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
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesoptionalyes
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
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 BASICyes
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
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJava
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuaPL/SQL, SQL PLyesyes
Triggersyesnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneyesyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDACIDACID
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
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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