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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. jBASE vs. Lovefield vs. Quasardb vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. jBASE vs. Lovefield vs. Quasardb vs. SQL.JS

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptDistributed, high-performance timeseries databasePort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Multivalue DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#252  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasegoogle.github.io/­lovefieldquasar.aisql.js.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9github.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mddoc.quasar.ai/­mastersql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)GooglequasardbAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release20141991201420092012
Current release5.72.1.12, February 20173.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaScriptC++JavaScript
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
Linux
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenooptionalyesyes infointeger and binaryyes
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.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASICSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternSQL-like query languageyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
HTTP APIJavaScript API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
JavaScript.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnonono
TriggersyesyesUsing read-only observersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneSharding infoconsistent hashingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesnoneSource-replica replication with selectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyes infoby using LevelDBno 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.yesyesyes infousing MemoryDByes infoTransient modeyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelnoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailno

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