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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Ehcache vs. jBASE vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	4.89
Rank	#67	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.ehcache.org

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

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.ehcache.org/documentation

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

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Sybase, SAP

Initial release

2014

2009

1991

1993

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a 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

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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.

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JCache

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

by using Terracotta Server

yes

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

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

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

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

using a tiered cache-storage approach

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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