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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. DuckDB vs. GridGain vs. Oracle Rdb vs. WakandaDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryAn embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteWakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSObject oriented DBMS
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score4.63
Rank#69  Overall
#37  Relational DBMS
Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Score1.14
Rank#178  Overall
#80  Relational DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#356  Overall
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitealasql.orgduckdb.orgwww.gridgain.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlwakanda.github.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlduckdb.org/­docswww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmlwakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffGridGain Systems, Inc.Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)Wakanda SAS
Initial release20142018200719842012
Current release1.0.0, June 2024GridGain 8.5.17.4.1.1, 20212.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++Java, C++, .NetC++, JavaScript
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)server-lessLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
HP Open VMSLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyesno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIArrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C# info3rd party driver
C++
Crystal info3rd party driver
Go info3rd party driver
Java
Lisp info3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby info3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig info3rd party driver
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yes
Triggersyesnoyes (cache interceptors and events)yes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneyes (replicated cache)none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDyes, on a single nodeACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsyes

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