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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. gStore vs. HarperDB vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.

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

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Document store

Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.04
Rank	#359	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#18	RDF stores

Score	0.55
Rank	#248	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

en.gstore.cn

www.harperdb.io

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

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

docs.harperdb.io/docs

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

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

HarperDB

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2014

2016

2017

1987

Current release

1.2, November 2023

3.1, August 2021

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

BSD

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Node.js

C and C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux

Linux
OS X

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

dynamic schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like data manipulation statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

yes

Atomic execution of specific operations

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

yes, using LMDB

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

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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