DBMS > AlaSQL vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SQL.JS vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SQL.JS vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	3.95
Rank	#80	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

alasql.org

rocksdb.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

sql.js.org

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Facebook, Inc.

SAP

formerly Sybase

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2014

2013

1992

2012

2020

Current release

9.2.1, May 2024

17, July 2015

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

yes

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

except by serializing a db to a file

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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