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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Geode vs. jBASE vs. SQL.JS vs. VoltDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Geode vs. jBASE vs. SQL.JS vs. VoltDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewarePort of SQLite to JavaScriptDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#131  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#252  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Score1.44
Rank#158  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orggeode.apache.orgwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasesql.js.orgwww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlgeode.apache.org/­docsdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9sql.js.org/­documentation/­index.htmldocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)Alon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersVoltDB Inc.
Initial release20142002199120122010
Current release1.1, February 20175.711.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfirecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaJavaScriptJava, C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)All OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredAIX
Linux
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesoptionalyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL-like query language (OQL)Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASICyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
JavaScript APIJava API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
JavaScriptC#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyesnoJava
Triggersyesyes infoCache Event Listenersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationyesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageyes, on a single nodeACIDACIDACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyes infoSnapshots and command logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights per client and object definableAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelnoUsers and roles with access to stored procedures

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