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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Citus vs. Ehcache vs. jBASE vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Citus vs. Ehcache vs. jBASE vs. TerminusDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value storeMultivalue DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
RDF store
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Trend Chart
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score2.15
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score1.49
Rank#156  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.citusdata.comwww.ehcache.orgwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbaseterminusdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.citusdata.comwww.ehcache.org/­documentationdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9terminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)DataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20142010200919912018
Current release8.1, December 20183.10.0, March 20225.711.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptCJavaProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxAll OS with a Java VMAIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-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 indexesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yes infostandard, with numerous extensionsnoEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JCacheJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Java.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.noyesyes
Triggersyesyesyes infoCache Event Listenersyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerShardingGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsyes infoby using Terracotta ServeryesJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelRole-based access control

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