DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Drizzle vs. jBASE vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Drizzle vs. jBASE vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

A global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

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

Score	0.32
Rank	#283	Overall
	#40	Key-value stores

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.cloudflare.com/developer-platform/workers-kv

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

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

developers.cloudflare.com/kv/api

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

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Cloudflare

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2014

2018

2008

1991

2009

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

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

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

AIX
Linux
Windows

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

yes

with proprietary extensions

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala

C
C++
Java
PHP

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

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

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

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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