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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Graphite vs. jBASE vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Graphite vs. jBASE vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SwayDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score20.56
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitealasql.orggithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbaseazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9docs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffChris DavisRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)MicrosoftSimer Plaha
Initial release20142006199120162018
Current release5.7
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaScriptPythonC++Scala
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Unix
AIX
Linux
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoNumeric data onlyoptionalyesno
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesnonoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICyesno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIHTTP API
Sockets
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
C#
Java
PHP
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesTransact SQLno
Triggersyesnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingSharding, horizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneyesyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDACIDAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelyesno

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