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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. BoltDB vs. jBASE vs. SwayDB vs. TypeDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. BoltDB vs. jBASE vs. SwayDB vs. TypeDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryAn embedded key-value store for Go.A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageTypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeMultivalue DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS infoOften described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Score0.65
Rank#234  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#107  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orggithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbaseswaydb.simer.autypedb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9typedb.com/­docs
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)Simer PlahaVaticle
Initial release20142013199120182016
Current release5.72.26.3, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptGoScalaJava
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonooptionalnoyes
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesnononoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICnono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptGo.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
Java
Kotlin
Scala
All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesnono
Triggersyesnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingnoneSharding infoby using Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneyesnoneMulti-source replication infoby using Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes infoby using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono infosubstituted by the relationship feature
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageyesACIDAtomic execution of operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yesnoyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelnoyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
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AlaSQLBoltDBjBASESwayDBTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn
Specific characteristicsTypeDB is a polymorphic database with a conceptual data model, a strong subtyping...
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Competitive advantagesTypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
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Typical application scenariosLife sciences : TypeDB makes working with biological data much easier and accelerates...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache f or language drivers, and AGPL and Commercial for the database server. The...
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