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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. jBASE vs. PouchDB vs. QuestDB vs. SwayDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Multivalue DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitealasql.orgwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasepouchdb.comquestdb.ioswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9pouchdb.com/­guidesquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)Apache Software FoundationQuestDB Technology IncSimer Plaha
Initial release20141991201220142018
Current release5.77.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaScriptJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustScala
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
Linux
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenooptionalnoyesno
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.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia viewsnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASICnoSQL with time-series extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
JavaScriptC infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesView functions in JavaScriptnono
Triggersyesyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungehorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication with eventual consistencynone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDnoACID for single-table writesAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes infothrough memory mapped filesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelnono
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AlaSQLjBASEPouchDBQuestDBSwayDB
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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