DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Databend vs. jBASE vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Databend vs. jBASE vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

An open-source, elastic, and workload-aware cloud data warehouse designed to meet businesses' massive-scale analytics needs at low cost and with low complexity

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	0.34
Rank	#283	Overall
	#130	Relational DBMS

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	19.93
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

alasql.org

github.com/datafuselabs/databend
www.databend.com

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

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.databend.com

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

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Databend Labs

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Microsoft

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2014

2021

1991

2016

2018

Current release

1.0.59, April 2023

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

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

Rust

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

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

hosted
Linux
macOS

AIX
Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

CLI Client
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C#
Java
PHP

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

yes

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes

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