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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Datomic vs. jBASE vs. PlanetScale

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Datomic vs. jBASE vs. PlanetScale

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of Vitess
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score1.49
Rank#156  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score1.49
Rank#155  Overall
#72  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.datomic.comwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbaseplanetscale.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.datomic.comdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9planetscale.com/­docs
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffCognitectRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)PlanetScale
Initial release2014201219912020
Current release1.0.7075, December 20235.7
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infolimited edition freecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJava, ClojureGo
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)All OS with a Java VMAIX
Linux
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesoptionalyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptClojure
Java
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoTransaction Functionsyesyes infoproprietary syntax
TriggersyesBy using transaction functionsyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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