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System Properties Comparison SQL.JS vs. StarRocks vs. TerminusDB vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

An open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics

Forked from Apache Doris

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Score	0.93
Rank	#198	Overall
	#93	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

sql.js.org

www.starrocks.io

terminusdb.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

docs.starrocks.io/en-us/latest/introduction/StarRocks_intro

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

The Linux Foundation

since Feb 2023

DataChemist Ltd.

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2012

2020

2018

1987

Current release

2.5.3, March 2023

11.0.0, January 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++, Java

Prolog, Rust

C and C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
MySQL protocol

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java

JavaScript
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning (by range and hash)

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Journaling Streams

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

except by serializing a db to a file

yes

in-memory journaling

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

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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