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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Firebolt vs. jBASE vs. Solr vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Firebolt vs. jBASE vs. Solr vs. SwayDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryHighly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache LuceneAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSMultivalue DBMSSearch engineKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#134  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score42.91
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitealasql.orgwww.firebolt.iowww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasesolr.apache.orgswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.firebolt.iodocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9solr.apache.org/­resources.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffFirebolt Analytics Inc.Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)Apache Software FoundationSimer Plaha
Initial release20142020199120062018
Current release5.79.6.0, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaScala
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedAIX
Linux
Windows
All OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fieldsschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesoptionalyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typingno
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.noyesyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICSolr Parallel SQL Interfaceno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript API.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptGo
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesJava pluginsno
Triggersyesnoyesyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonedepending on storage layeryesyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduceno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDoptimistic lockingAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelyesno

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