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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. jBASE vs. LokiJS vs. Spark SQL

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

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

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	18.96
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

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

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

spark.apache.org/sql

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

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

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2014

1991

2014

Current release

5.7

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Scala

Server operating systems

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

AIX
Linux
Windows

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

via views

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

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

JavaScript

Java
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

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 operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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