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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Graph Engine vs. jBASE vs. Rockset vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Graph Engine vs. jBASE vs. Rockset vs. SQL.JS

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBPort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Multivalue DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.61
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.53
Rank#252  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.graphengine.iowww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbaserockset.comsql.js.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9docs.rockset.comsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffMicrosoftRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)RocksetAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release20142010199120192012
Current release5.7
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaScript.NET and CC++JavaScript
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js).NETAIX
Linux
Windows
hostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesoptionaldynamic typingyes
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 infoingestion from XML files supportedno
Secondary indexesnoall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
HTTP RESTJavaScript API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyesnono
Triggersyesnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningShardingAutomatic shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
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 can be defined down to the item levelAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleno

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