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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Firebird vs. Graph Engine vs. jBASE vs. Sequoiadb

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Firebird vs. Graph Engine vs. jBASE vs. Sequoiadb

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Multivalue DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.61
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.45
Rank#261  Overall
#41  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.firebirdsql.orgwww.graphengine.iowww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasewww.sequoiadb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualswww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9www.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffFirebird FoundationMicrosoftRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)Sequoiadb Ltd.
Initial release20142000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase201019912013
Current release5.0.0, January 20245.7
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC and C++.NET and CC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
.NETAIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesoptionalyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regex
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesnoEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPSQLyesyesJavaScript
Triggersyesyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonehorizontal partitioningShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDnoACIDDocument is locked during a transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelsimple password-based access control

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