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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Hazelcast vs. jBASE vs. SwayDB vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

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Trend Chart

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

Score	5.97
Rank	#57	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Website

alasql.org

hazelcast.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

swaydb.simer.au

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Hazelcast

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Simer Plaha

8Kdata

Initial release

2014

2008

1991

2018

2016

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Scala

Java

Server operating systems

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

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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.

yes

the object must implement a serialization strategy

yes

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

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

yes

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Replicated Map

yes

none

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 selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
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

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

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

Role-based access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights for users and roles

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