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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. DuckDB vs. GBase vs. Oracle Coherence

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMS

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
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Score	4.63
Rank	#69	Overall
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Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	1.97
Rank	#129	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Website

alasql.org

duckdb.org

www.gbase.cn

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

duckdb.org/docs

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Oracle

Initial release

2014

2018

2004

2007

Current release

0.10, February 2024

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

14.1, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

C, Java, Python

Java

Server operating systems

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

server-less

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

Standard with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C#

3rd party driver
C++
Crystal

3rd party driver
Go

3rd party driver
Java
Lisp

3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby

3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig

3rd party driver

.Net
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

yes, with selectable consistency level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
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

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

optionally

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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