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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. jBASE vs. LevelDB vs. SQL.JS

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryCloud-based data warehousing serviceA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesPort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSMultivalue DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
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Score0.49
Rank#259  Overall
#40  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score1.34
Rank#166  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Score1.43
Rank#160  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#107  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score0.57
Rank#248  Overall
#114  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousewww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasegithub.com/­google/­leveldbsql.js.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9github.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mdsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffIBMRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)GoogleAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release20142014199120112012
Current release5.71.23, February 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++JavaScript
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedAIX
Linux
Windows
Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesoptionalnoyes
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.nono infoImport/export of XML data possibleyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICnoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript API.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJava
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
C++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPL/SQL, SQL PLyesnono
Triggersyesyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesyesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes infowith automatic compression on writesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelnono

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