DBMS > AlaSQL vs. GBase vs. JaguarDB vs. Lovefield vs. Vertica

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. GBase vs. JaguarDB vs. Lovefield vs. Vertica

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Cloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Column oriented

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

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

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#381	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	10.06
Rank	#42	Overall
	#26	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.gbase.cn

www.jaguardb.com

google.github.io/lovefield

www.vertica.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

vertica.com/documentation

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

DataJaguar, Inc.

Google

OpenText

previously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard

Initial release

2014

2004

2015

2014

2005

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

3.3 July 2023

2.1.12, February 2017

12.0.3, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Limited community edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

on-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C, Java, Python

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Yes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.

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

yes

No Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.

SQL

Support of SQL

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

Standard with numerous extensions

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

Full 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL

character-based, interactive, front-end utility

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

yes, called Custom Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

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

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Multi-source replication

none

Multi-source replication

One, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Bi-directional Spark integration

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

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, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

yes

rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash

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Key customers

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