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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Blueflood vs. jBASE vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.09
Rank	#353	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.43
Rank	#160	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.15
Rank	#337	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

blueflood.io

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

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

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

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Rackspace

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2014

2013

1991

1987

Current release

5.7

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud 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

AIX
Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

predefined scheme

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.

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

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

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

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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