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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. GBase vs. HarperDB vs. Heroic

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.55
Rank	#248	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.gbase.cn

www.harperdb.io

github.com/spotify/heroic

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.harperdb.io/docs

spotify.github.io/heroic

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

HarperDB

Spotify

Initial release

2014

2004

2017

2014

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

3.1, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C, Java, Python

Node.js

Java

Server operating systems

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

Linux

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

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

yes

via Elasticsearch

SQL

Support of SQL

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

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like data manipulation statements

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
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

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

yes, using LMDB

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

yes

Access rights for users and roles

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