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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. EJDB vs. searchxml vs. SWC-DB vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

alasql.org

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.searchxml.net/category/products

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

yanza.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Softmotions

informationpartners gmbh

Alex Kashirin

Yanza

Initial release

2014

2012

2015

2020

2015

Current release

1.0

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

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

server-less

Windows

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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.

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

in-process shared library

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

C++

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

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

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

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

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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