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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. searchxml vs. SQL.JS vs. VoltDB

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.02
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Score	1.47
Rank	#157	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

www.searchxml.net/category/products

sql.js.org

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Altibase

informationpartners gmbh

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

1999

2015

2012

2010

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

1.0

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

Java, C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Windows

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

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

ANSI SQL-92

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

JavaScript API

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

JavaScript

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

on the application server

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

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

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

yes

Snapshots and command logging

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

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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