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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Badger vs. Ingres vs. OpenEdge vs. Oracle

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

Well established RDBMS

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Widely used RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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

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

Score	0.14
Rank	#331	Overall
	#49	Key-value stores

Score	4.11
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

www.progress.com/openedge

www.oracle.com/database

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

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

docs.actian.com/ingres

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

docs.oracle.com/en/database

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

DGraph Labs

Actian Corporation

Progress Software Corporation

Oracle

Initial release

2014

2017

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

1984

1980

Current release

11.2, May 2022

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

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++

Server operating systems

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

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

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

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

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

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Ingres Replicator

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

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

isolation level can be parameterized

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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