DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. LokiJS vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. LokiJS vs. SQLite

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Name

Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

A multi-model DBMS and application server

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.42
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	0.82
Rank	#205	Overall
	#97	Relational DBMS

Score	0.44
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores

Score	103.35
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.alibabacloud.com/product/polardb

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

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

docs.intersystems.com

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Alibaba

InterSystems

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2014

1997

2014

2000

Current release

2018.1.4, May 2020

3.46.1 (13 August 2024), August 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

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

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java
Python

C#
C++
Java

JavaScript

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles

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