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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. IBM Db2 vs. Interbase

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. IBM Db2 vs. Interbase

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonCloudflare Workers KV  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/LinuxLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from Borland
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.39
Rank#274  Overall
#39  Key-value stores
Score125.90
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.cloudflare.com/­developer-platform/­workers-kvwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2www.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbase
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldevelopers.cloudflare.com/­kv/­apiwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2docs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbase
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffCloudflareIBMEmbarcadero
Initial release201420181983 infohost version1984
Current release12.1, October 2016InterBase 2020, December 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercialcommercial infofree version is availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC and C++C
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyes
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.nonono infoexport as XML data possible
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIHTTP REST
Proprietary protocol
ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger language
Triggersyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux Versionnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesyes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)Interbase Change Views
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMultiversion concurreny control
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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