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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. GigaSpaces vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. jBASE

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

Cloud-based data warehousing service

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Secondary database models

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Score	0.41
Rank	#262	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	0.89
Rank	#198	Overall
	#33	Document stores
	#7	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.26
Rank	#161	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Score	1.33
Rank	#158	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.gigaspaces.com

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

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

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

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

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Gigaspaces Technologies

IBM

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Initial release

2014

2000

2014

1991

Current release

15.5, September 2020

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java, C++, .Net

Server operating systems

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

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

hosted

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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.

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

Import/export of XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

yes

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL, SQL PL

yes

Triggers

yes

yes, event driven architecture

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

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

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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