DBMS > AlaSQL vs. jBASE vs. MaxDB vs. OushuDB vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. jBASE vs. MaxDB vs. OushuDB vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

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

A data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning

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

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Relational 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	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#363	Overall
	#154	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

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

maxdb.sap.com

www.oushu.com/product/oushuDB

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

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

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

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

www.oushu.com/documentation

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

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

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

Oushu

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2014

1991

1984

1987

Current release

5.7

7.9.10.12, February 2024

4.0.1, August 2020

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

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

AIX
Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
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

SQL

Support of SQL

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

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C
C++

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

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Kerberos, SSL and role based access

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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