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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. BigchainDB vs. jBASE vs. MonetDB vs. UniData,UniVerse

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. BigchainDB vs. jBASE vs. MonetDB vs. UniData,UniVerse

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonUniData,UniVerse  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareA relational database management system that stores data in columnsMultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score1.49
Rank#156  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score2.85
Rank#98  Overall
#1  Multivalue DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.bigchaindb.comwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasewww.monetdb.orgwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-unidata
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9www.monetdb.org/­Documentationdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)MonetDB BVRocket Software
Initial release20142016199120041985
Current release5.7Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptPythonCC
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxAIX
Linux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonooptionalyesoptional
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APICLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Java API infoJPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
Basic infoU2 Basic
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes, in SQL, C, Ryes
Triggersyesyesyesyes infoU2 Basic
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingSharding via remote tablesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factoryesnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDACID infoconfigurable
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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