DBMS > FatDB vs. JSqlDb vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SQL.JS vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison FatDB vs. JSqlDb vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SQL.JS vs. STSdb

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

jsqldb.org (offline)

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

sql.js.org

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

FatCloud

Konrad von Backstrom

SAP

formerly Sybase

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2012

2018

1992

2012

2011

Current release

0.8, December 2018

17, July 2015

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

Via inetgration in SQL Server

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

functions in JavaScript

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

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

User concepts

Access control

Can implement custom security layer via applications

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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