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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. jBASE vs. OrientDB vs. Snowflake vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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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	3.25
Rank	#89	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#6	Graph DBMS
	#13	Key-value stores

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

alasql.org

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

orientdb.org

www.snowflake.com

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

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

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Snowflake Computing Inc.

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2014

1991

2010

2014

2018

Current release

5.7

3.2.29, March 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

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

AIX
Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

SQL-like query language, no joins

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java, Javascript

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Hooks

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Multi-source replication

yes

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

yes

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 journaling

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

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Role-based access control

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