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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. HBase vs. OrigoDB vs. SWC-DB vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

hbase.apache.org

origodb.com

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

hbase.apache.org/book.html

origodb.com/docs

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Robert Friberg et al

Alex Kashirin

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2014

2008

2009

under the name LiveDB

2020

1987

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

0.5, April 2021

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

options to bring your own types, AVRO

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

.Net

C++

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

Write ahead log

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

Role based authorization

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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