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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. JSqlDb vs. MonetDB

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Cloud-based data warehousing service

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.42
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	1.26
Rank	#162	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#135	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

jsqldb.org (offline)

www.monetdb.org

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

IBM

Konrad von Backstrom

MonetDB BV

Initial release

2014

2018

2004

Current release

0.8, December 2018

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Server operating systems

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

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

JavaScript

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL, SQL PL

functions in JavaScript

yes, in SQL, C, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding via remote tables

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

using RocksDB

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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