DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Faircom DB vs. jBASE vs. Riak TS vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Faircom DB vs. jBASE vs. Riak TS vs. Valentina Server

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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.

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.29
Rank	#304	Overall
	#43	Key-value stores
	#136	Relational DBMS

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

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

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

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

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

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

FairCom Corporation

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2014

1979

1991

2015

1999

Current release

V12, November 2020

5.7

3.0.0, September 2022

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

Open Source

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

ANSI C, C++

Erlang

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

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures

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

restricted

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

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes, limited

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

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

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

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

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes

Erlang

yes

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

Sharding

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).

yes

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

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

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

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

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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