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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Graph Engine vs. JaguarDB vs. SQL.JS

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	0.61
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Website

www.graphengine.io

www.jaguardb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Microsoft

DataJaguar, Inc.

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2014

2010

2015

2012

Current release

3.3 July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

no

no

no

no

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Implementation language

JavaScript

.NET and C

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

JavaScript

Server operating systems

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

.NET

Linux

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

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

yes

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

no

yes

yes

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.

no

no

no

no

Secondary indexes

no

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

no

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

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

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

no

yes

no

no

Triggers

yes

no

no

no

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

no

no

no

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

no

no

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

no

no

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

yes

no

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

yes

no

yes

User concepts

Access control

no

rights management via user accounts

no

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