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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. JaguarDB vs. jBASE vs. Lovefield vs. Memcached

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

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

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	19.42
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Website

alasql.org

www.jaguardb.com

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

google.github.io/lovefield

www.memcached.org

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

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

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

DataJaguar, Inc.

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Google

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Initial release

2014

2015

1991

2014

2003

Current release

3.3 July 2023

5.7

2.1.12, February 2017

1.6.25, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

JavaScript

Server operating systems

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

Linux

AIX
Linux
Windows

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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.

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

JavaScript

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

yes

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual 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

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

rights management via user accounts

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

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