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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. DolphinDB vs. jBASE vs. mSQL vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. DolphinDB vs. jBASE vs. mSQL vs. Sphinx

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryDolphinDB 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.A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewaremSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score4.13
Rank#80  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitealasql.orgwww.dolphindb.comwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasehughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmldocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9sphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffDolphinDB, IncRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)Hughes TechnologiesSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20142018199119942001
Current releasev2.00.4, January 20225.74.4, October 20213.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infofree community version availablecommercialcommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++CC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesoptionalyesno
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL-like query languageEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyesnono
Triggersyesnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningShardingnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesyesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageyesACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesnoyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAdministrators, Users, GroupsAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelnono

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