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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Citus vs. Dolt vs. jBASE vs. SAP IQ

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Citus vs. Dolt vs. jBASE vs. SAP IQ

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonDolt  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLA MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schemaA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn-oriented
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score2.15
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#191  Overall
#89  Relational DBMS
Score1.49
Rank#156  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score2.64
Rank#108  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.citusdata.comgithub.com/­dolthub/­dolt
www.dolthub.com
www.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasewww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.html
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.citusdata.comdocs.dolthub.comdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9help.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQ
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffDoltHub IncRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)SAP, formerly Sybase
Initial release20142010201819911994
Current release8.1, December 20185.716.1 SPS04, April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptCGo
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
AIX
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.noyes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalitynoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yes infostandard, with numerous extensionsyesEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
CLI Client
HTTP REST
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.yes infocurrently in alpha releaseyesyes
Triggersyesyesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneShardingshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsA database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.yesSAP/Sybase Replication Server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoHadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDACIDACID
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.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardOnly one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startupAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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