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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Derby vs. Dolt vs. jBASE vs. OrigoDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

A MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schema

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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

Score	4.60
Rank	#70	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#191	Overall
	#89	Relational DBMS

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#380	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Website

alasql.org

db.apache.org/derby

github.com/dolthub/dolt
www.dolthub.com

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

origodb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html

docs.dolthub.com

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

origodb.com/docs

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Apache Software Foundation

DoltHub Inc

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Robert Friberg et al

Initial release

2014

1997

2018

1991

2009

under the name LiveDB

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

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

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

User defined using .NET types and collections

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

can be achieved using .NET

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

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC

CLI Client
HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

currently in alpha release

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

A database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

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

Write ahead log

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Only one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startup

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Role based authorization

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