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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. CockroachDB vs. Cubrid vs. mSQL

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

CockroachDB is a distributed database architected for modern cloud applications. It is wire compatible with PostgreSQL and backed by a Key-Value Store, which is either RocksDB or a purpose-built derivative, called Pebble.

CUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTP

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
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Score	6.15
Rank	#55	Overall
	#33	Relational DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#169	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.cockroachlabs.com

cubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

cubrid.org/manuals

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Cockroach Labs

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Hughes Technologies

Initial release

2014

2015

2008

1994

Current release

23.1.1, May 2023

11.0, January 2021

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C, C++, Java

Server operating systems

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

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

dynamic schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

all tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFT

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate 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

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

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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