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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. PlanetScale vs. Quasardb vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. PlanetScale vs. Quasardb vs. SQL.JS

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessDistributed, high-performance timeseries databasePort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score1.49
Rank#155  Overall
#72  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgplanetscale.comquasar.aisql.js.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlplanetscale.com/­docsdoc.quasar.ai/­mastersql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffPlanetScalequasardbAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release2014202020092012
Current release3.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptGoC++JavaScript
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Docker
Linux
macOS
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes 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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like query languageyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
HTTP APIJavaScript API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoproprietary syntaxnono
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication with selectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Immediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage enginenoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACID at shard levelACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyes 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 infoTransient modeyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailno

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