DBMS > AlaSQL vs. jBASE vs. Kinetica vs. MaxDB vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. jBASE vs. Kinetica vs. MaxDB vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

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

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.64
Rank	#236	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

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

Website

alasql.org

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

www.kinetica.com

maxdb.sap.com

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

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

docs.kinetica.com

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Kinetica

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2014

1991

2012

1984

2018

Current release

5.7

7.1, August 2021

7.9.10.12, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C, C++

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

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

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights for users and roles on table level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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