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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. GridGain vs. jBASE vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. GridGain vs. jBASE vs. TerminusDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Multivalue DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF 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
Score1.47
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#72  Relational DBMS
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.gridgain.comwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbaseterminusdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmldocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9terminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffGridGain Systems, Inc.Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)DataChemist Ltd.
Initial release2014200719912018
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.15.711.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJava, C++, .NetProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesoptionalyes
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.noyesyesno
Secondary indexesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yesyes
Triggersyesyes (cache interceptors and events)yesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes (replicated cache)yesJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelRole-based access control

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