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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. jBASE vs. PouchDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. jBASE vs. PouchDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SQL.JS

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsPort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Multivalue DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
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
Score4.25
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#252  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasepouchdb.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlsql.js.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9pouchdb.com/­guideshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywheresql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)Apache Software FoundationSAP infoformerly SybaseAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release20141991201219922012
Current release5.77.1.1, June 201917, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaScriptJavaScript
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
Linux
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenooptionalnoyesyes
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.noyesnoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASICnoyesyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
JavaScriptC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesView functions in JavaScriptyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlno
Triggersyesyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungenonenone
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 infoDatabase mirroringnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesno 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.yesyesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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