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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. DolphinDB vs. Interbase vs. jBASE

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.49
Rank	#259	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	4.23
Rank	#82	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.04
Rank	#71	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	1.43
Rank	#160	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.dolphindb.com

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

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

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.dolphindb.cn/en/help200/index.html

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

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

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

DolphinDB, Inc

Embarcadero

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Initial release

2014

2018

1984

1991

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

InterBase 2020, December 2019

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

free community version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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.

export as XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like query language

yes

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Interbase Change Views

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

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

Administrators, Users, Groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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