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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Badger vs. EJDB vs. OpenEdge

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

A cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.

An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
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Score	0.66
Rank	#235	Overall
	#108	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#320	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	3.45
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.alibabacloud.com/product/polardb

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.progress.com/openedge

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/polardb/product-overview

godoc.org/github.com/dgraph-io/badger

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Alibaba

DGraph Labs

Softmotions

Progress Software Corporation

Initial release

2014

2017

2012

1984

Current release

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Server operating systems

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

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

yes

close to SQL 92

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

in-process shared library

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java
Python

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

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

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and groups

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