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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. BoltDB vs. Galaxybase vs. Memcached vs. Oracle

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. BoltDB vs. Galaxybase vs. Memcached vs. Oracle

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonOracle  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryAn embedded key-value store for Go.Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingWidely used RDBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeGraph DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store infowith Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS infowith Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS infosince Oracle 23
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.07
Rank#377  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score1244.08
Rank#1  Overall
#1  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orggithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgalaxybase.comwww.memcached.orgwww.oracle.com/­database
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikidocs.oracle.com/­en/­database
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司Danga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalOracle
Initial release20142013201720031980
Current releaseNov 20, November 20211.6.27, May 202423c, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercial inforestricted free version is available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptGoC and JavaCC and C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeStrong typed schemaschema-freeyes infoSchemaless in JSON and XML columns
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesnoyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononoyes
Secondary indexesnonoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nononoyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIBrowser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
Proprietary protocolJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptGoGo
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
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 infoStored proceduresnonouser defined procedures and functionsnoPL/SQL infoalso stored procedures in Java possible
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingnoneSharding, horizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenonenone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono infocan be realized in PL/SQL
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphsnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageyesACIDnoACID infoisolation level can be parameterized
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesnoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes infoVersion 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoRole-based access controlyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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