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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. OpenTenBase vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

An enterprise-level distributed HTAP open source database based on PostgreSQL

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

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	3.54
Rank	#84	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#370	Overall
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

github.com/OpenTenBase/OpenTenBase
www.opentenbase.org

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

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

docs.opentenbase.org
docs.opentenbase.org/en

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

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

InterSystems

OpenAtom Foundation, previously Tencent

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2014

2018

1987

Current release

2023.3, June 2023

2.5, January 2024

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

BSD-3

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C and C++

Server operating systems

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

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

depending on used data model

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

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

C
Go
Java
PHP
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

yes

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

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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