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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. jBASE vs. SQL.JS vs. Warp 10 vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

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

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#344	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

alasql.org

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

sql.js.org

www.warp10.io

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

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

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

SenX

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2014

1991

2012

2015

2019

Current release

5.7

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Clojure

Server operating systems

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

AIX
Linux
Windows

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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.

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

JavaScript API

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

JavaScript

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on HBase

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

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

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

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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