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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Sequoiadb vs. SQL.JS vs. Tibero

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Score	1.59
Rank	#148	Overall
	#68	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.sequoiadb.com

sql.js.org

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

TmaxSoft

Initial release

2014

2013

2012

2003

Current release

6, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

JavaScript

C and Assembler

Server operating systems

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

Linux

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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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.

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

proprietary protocol using JSON

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual 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

Document is locked during a transaction

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

planned for next version

User concepts

Access control

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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