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System Properties Comparison SQL.JS vs. Transbase vs. Trino

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Name

Description

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

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

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

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Score	0.53
Rank	#241	Overall
	#113	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#362	Overall
	#151	Relational DBMS

Score	5.13
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Website

sql.js.org

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

trino.io

Technical documentation

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

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

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

Developer

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Transaction Software GmbH

Trino Software Foundation

Initial release

2012

1987

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

Current release

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

free development license

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

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 and C++

Java

Server operating systems

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

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

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

depending on connected data-source

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, depending on connected data-source

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

depending on connected data-source

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

depending on connected data-source

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

depending on connected data-source

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

depending on connected data-source

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

except by serializing a db to a file

yes

depending on connected data-source

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

SQL standard access control

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News

Twenty four
3 March 2025

71: Fake it real good
27 February 2025

70: Previewing a new UI
13 February 2025

Out with the old file system
10 February 2025

69: Client protocol improvements
30 January 2025

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