DBMS > AlaSQL vs. GBase vs. jBASE vs. Sqrrl vs. Trino

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. GBase vs. jBASE vs. Sqrrl vs. Trino

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Name

Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Adaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.41
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	1.11
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	1.39
Rank	#154	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	5.35
Rank	#61	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.gbase.cn

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

sqrrl.com

trino.io

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Amazon

originally Sqrrl Data, Inc.

Trino Software Foundation

Initial release

2014

2004

1991

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C, Java, Python

Java

Server operating systems

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

Linux

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

depending on connected data-source

SQL

Support of SQL

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

Standard with numerous extensions

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Actionscript
C

using GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

yes, depending on connected data-source

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

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

Sharding

making use of Hadoop

depending on connected data-source

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

selectable replication factor

making use of Hadoop

depending on connected data-source

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Document store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.

depending on connected data-source

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 updates per row, document, or graph entity

depending on connected data-source

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

depending on connected data-source

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 can be defined down to the item level

Cell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

SQL standard access control

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