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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Blueflood vs. Infobright vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Oracle Rdb

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

Widely used in-process key-value store

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

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

Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	2.21
Rank	#117	Overall
	#20	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#184	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

blueflood.io

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

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

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

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

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

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Rackspace

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Initial release

2014

2013

2005

1994

1984

Current release

18.1.40, May 2020

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

Open Source

commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

Server operating systems

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

Linux
OS X

Linux
Windows

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

HP Open VMS

Data scheme

schema-free

predefined scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, 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

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

Secondary indexes

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

yes, on a single node

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

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

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