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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Faircom DB vs. Google BigQuery vs. JaguarDB vs. Lovefield

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Native high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.20
Rank	#318	Overall
	#48	Key-value stores
	#141	Relational DBMS

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.jaguardb.com

google.github.io/lovefield

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.html

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

FairCom Corporation

Google

DataJaguar, Inc.

Google

Initial release

2014

1979

2010

2015

2014

Current release

V12, November 2020

3.3 July 2023

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

ANSI C, C++

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

JavaScript

Server operating systems

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

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

easily portable to other OSs

hosted

Linux

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Data scheme

schema-free

schema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

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, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memory

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for files

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

rights management via user accounts

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