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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. FeatureBase vs. GigaSpaces vs. Interbase vs. PlanetScale

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. FeatureBase vs. GigaSpaces vs. Interbase vs. PlanetScale

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonFeatureBase  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryReal-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of Vitess
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.31
Rank#292  Overall
#135  Relational DBMS
Score1.03
Rank#188  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score1.49
Rank#155  Overall
#72  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.featurebase.comwww.gigaspaces.comwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbaseplanetscale.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.featurebase.comdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmldocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbaseplanetscale.com/­docs
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffMolecula and Pilosa Open Source ContributorsGigaspaces TechnologiesEmbarcaderoPlanetScale
Initial release20142017200019842020
Current release2022, May 202215.5, September 2020InterBase 2020, December 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaScriptGoJava, C++, .NetCGo
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
macOS
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatano infoexport as XML data possible
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL queriesSQL-99 for query and DML statementsyesyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIgRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJava
Python
.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersyesnoyes, event driven architectureyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Interbase Change ViewsMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageyesACIDACIDACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyes, using Linux fsyncyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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