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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Databend vs. OceanBase

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

An open-source, elastic, and workload-aware cloud data warehouse designed to meet businesses' massive-scale analytics needs at low cost and with low complexity

A distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQL

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Wide column store

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Score	0.45
Rank	#259	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#294	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	1.69
Rank	#138	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

github.com/datafuselabs/databend
www.databend.com

en.oceanbase.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.databend.com

en.oceanbase.com/docs/oceanbase-database

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Databend Labs

OceanBase

previously Alibaba and Ant Group

Initial release

2014

2021

2010

Current release

1.0.59, April 2023

4.3.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Rust

C++

Server operating systems

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

hosted
Linux
macOS

Linux

Data scheme

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.

yes

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

CLI Client
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Ada

in MySQL-compatible model
C

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D

in MySQL-compatible model
Delphi

in MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel

in MySQL-compatible model
Erlang

in MySQL-compatible model
Haskell

in MySQL-compatible model
Java

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js)

in MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C

in MySQL-compatible model
OCaml

in MySQL-compatible model
Perl

in MySQL-compatible model
PHP

in MySQL-compatible model
Python

in MySQL-compatible model
Ruby

in MySQL-compatible model
Scheme

in MySQL-compatible model
Tcl

in MySQL-compatible model

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible mode

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication using Paxos

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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