DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Oracle vs. SurrealDB vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Oracle vs. SurrealDB vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

A scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBase

Widely used RDBMS

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	1.97
Rank	#126	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#203	Overall
	#34	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

alasql.org

phoenix.apache.org

www.oracle.com/database

surrealdb.com

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

phoenix.apache.org

docs.oracle.com/en/database

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Apache Software Foundation

Oracle

SurrealDB Ltd

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2014

1980

2022

2020

Current release

5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019

23c, September 2023

v1.1.1, January 2024

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C and C++

Rust

C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux
Unix
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

schema-free

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

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

isolation level can be parameterized

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

Access Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancy

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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