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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. mSQL vs. TerminusDB vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. mSQL vs. TerminusDB vs. TimesTen

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonCloudflare Workers KV  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsAn in-memory SQL relational database that delivers microsecond response and high throughput for OLTP applications. TimesTen can be deployed as a standalone database or as a cache to a backend Oracle database.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.42
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#283  Overall
#40  Key-value stores
Score1.26
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#311  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Score1.26
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.cloudflare.com/­developer-platform/­workers-kvhughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlterminusdb.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldevelopers.cloudflare.com/­kv/­apiterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#docs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­timesten/­index.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffCloudflareHughes TechnologiesDataChemist Ltd.Oracle infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release20142018199420181998
Current release4.4, October 202111.0.0, January 2023Release 22.1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercialcommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoGPL V3commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptCProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
LinuxIBM AIX Power PC 64-bit
Linux arm64
Linux x86-64
Solaris SPARC 64
Solaris SPARC/x86
Solaris x86-64
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersSQL-like query language (WOQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIHTTP REST
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
ODBC
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Pro*C/C++ programming interfaces
SQL and PL/SQL via JDBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
JavaScript
Python
C
C++
Java
Node.js
PL/SQL
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyesPL/SQL
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneGraph Partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesnoneJournaling StreamsMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesnoyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes infoin-memory journalingyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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