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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. GBase vs. JaguarDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

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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
	#15	Vector DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.gbase.cn

www.jaguardb.com

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

DataJaguar, Inc.

Sybase, SAP

Initial release

2014

2004

2015

1993

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

3.3 July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C, Java, Python

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Server operating systems

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

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

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

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

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

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

yes

rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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