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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Badger vs. Oracle Rdb vs. SAP IQ

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

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Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

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

Score	1.14
Rank	#178	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

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

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

DGraph Labs

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2014

2017

1984

1994

Current release

7.4.1.1, 2021

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Server operating systems

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

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

HP Open VMS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, 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.

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

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

yes, on a single node

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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