DBMS > AlaSQL vs. jBASE vs. Memcached vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. jBASE vs. Memcached vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Riak KV

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

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

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial 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	19.42
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Website

alasql.org

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

www.memcached.org

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

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

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Microsoft

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2014

1991

2003

1989

2009

Current release

5.7

1.6.25, March 2024

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

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

AIX
Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X

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

restricted

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

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

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

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

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

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

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes, using Riak Security

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