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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. jBASE vs. searchxml vs. SwayDB vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. jBASE vs. searchxml vs. SwayDB vs. XTDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Multivalue DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Key-value storeDocument store
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitealasql.orgwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasewww.searchxml.net/­category/­productsswaydb.simer.augithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9www.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutswww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)informationpartners gmbhSimer PlahaJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20141991201520182019
Current release5.71.01.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++ScalaClojure
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
Linux
Windows
WindowsAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenooptionalyesnoyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.noyesyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASICnonolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsJava
Kotlin
Scala
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes infoon the application servernono
Triggersyesyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsnoneyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDmultiple readers, single writerAtomic execution of operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesno

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