DBMS > AlaSQL vs. ClickHouse vs. jBASE vs. Solr vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. ClickHouse vs. jBASE vs. Solr vs. SQL.JS

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	16.34
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	42.91
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

clickhouse.com

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

solr.apache.org

sql.js.org

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

clickhouse.com/docs

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

solr.apache.org/resources.html

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Clickhouse Inc.

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Apache Software Foundation

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2014

2016

1991

2006

2012

Current release

v24.3.2.23-lts, April 2024

5.7

9.5.0, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

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

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

AIX
Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

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

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

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

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java plugins

Triggers

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

key based and custom

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

none

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

optimistic locking

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

except by serializing a db to a file

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 for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes

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