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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Altibase vs. Lovefield vs. ReductStore

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Designed to manage unstructured time-series data efficiently, providing unique features such as storing time-stamped blobs with labels, customizable data retention policies, and a straightforward FIFO quota system.

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

alasql.org

altibase.com

google.github.io/lovefield

github.com/reductstore
www.reduct.store

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

www.reduct.store/docs

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Altibase

Google

ReductStore LLC

Initial release

2014

1999

2014

2023

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

2.1.12, February 2017

1.9, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Business Source License 1.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

JavaScript

C++, Rust

Server operating systems

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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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

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

ANSI SQL-92

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C++
Java

JavaScript

C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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