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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. jBASE vs. Rockset vs. SwayDB vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

alasql.org

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

rockset.com

swaydb.simer.au

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

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

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

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Rockset

Simer Plaha

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2014

1991

2019

2018

2020

Current release

5.7

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

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

AIX
Linux
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

dynamic typing

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

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

HTTP REST

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java
Kotlin
Scala

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Automatic sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

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

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

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 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 organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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