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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Fauna vs. HyperSQL vs. jBASE vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Fauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

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

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

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

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#14	Graph DBMS
	#71	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.49
Rank	#87	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

alasql.org

fauna.com

hsqldb.org

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

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.fauna.com

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

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

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Fauna, Inc.

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2014

2001

1991

2012

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

5.7

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Scala

Java

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

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

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

yes

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java, SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

none

yes

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

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

User concepts

Access control

Identity management, authentication, and access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes

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