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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. FoundationDB vs. LokiJS vs. SAP IQ

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. FoundationDB vs. LokiJS vs. SAP IQ

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.In-memory JavaScript DBMSColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Document storeRelational DBMS infocolumn-oriented
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score1.03
Rank#190  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#89  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orggithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.html
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlapple.github.io/­foundationdbtechfort.github.io/­LokiJShelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQ
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffFoundationDBSAP, formerly Sybase
Initial release2014201320141994
Current release6.2.28, November 202016.1 SPS04, April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++JavaScript
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infosome layers support schemasschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenono infosome layers support typingnoyes
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
Secondary indexesnonoyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.supported in specific SQL layer onlynoyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
JavaScriptC
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoin SQL-layer onlyView functions in JavaScriptyes
Triggersyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesnoneSAP/Sybase Replication Server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesHadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneLinearizable consistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesin SQL-layer onlynoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnononofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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