DBMS > AlaSQL vs. jBASE vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. OpenQM vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. jBASE vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. OpenQM vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

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

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Trend Chart

Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	19.93
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	0.34
Rank	#284	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

alasql.org

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

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

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

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

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

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Microsoft

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2014

1991

2016

1993

2018

Current release

5.7

3.4-12

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

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

AIX
Linux
Windows

hosted

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C#
Java
PHP

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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