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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. FeatureBase vs. Infobright vs. OpenQM

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Real-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

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

Score	0.31
Rank	#292	Overall
	#135	Relational DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#192	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	0.34
Rank	#284	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.featurebase.com

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

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

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.featurebase.com

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Molecula and Pilosa Open Source Contributors

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Initial release

2014

2017

2005

1993

Current release

2022, May 2022

3.4-12

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Server operating systems

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

Linux
macOS

Linux
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL queries

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

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

yes

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, using Linux fsync

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

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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