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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Graph Engine vs. jBASE vs. Quasardb

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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

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Multivalue DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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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	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.graphengine.io

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

quasar.ai

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

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

doc.quasar.ai/master

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Microsoft

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

quasardb

Initial release

2014

2010

1991

2009

Current release

5.7

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

.NET and C

C++

Server operating systems

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

.NET

AIX
Linux
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes

integer and binary

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

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

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

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

consistent hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

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

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

yes

by using LevelDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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