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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Elasticsearch vs. jBASE vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene

Elasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Search engine

Multivalue DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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Score	0.49
Rank	#259	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	134.78
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	1.43
Rank	#160	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#352	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

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

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index.html

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

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Elastic

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2014

2010

1991

2012

Current release

8.6, January 2023

5.7

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Elastic License

commercial

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

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

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

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

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like query language

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

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

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

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

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Memcached and Redis integration

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes

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