DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Blueflood vs. Infobright vs. Oracle Rdb vs. SAP Adaptive Server

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Blueflood vs. Infobright vs. Oracle Rdb vs. SAP Adaptive Server

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Score	0.49
Rank	#259	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#353	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.00
Rank	#193	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#187	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	37.12
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

blueflood.io

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Rackspace

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

SAP, Sybase

Initial release

2014

2013

2005

1984

1987

Current release

7.4.1.1, 2021

16.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux
OS X

Linux
Windows

HP Open VMS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

predefined scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java and Transact-SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

yes, on a single node

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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