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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. DuckDB vs. searchxml

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

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Score	0.41
Rank	#262	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	5.98
Rank	#57	Overall
	#34	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#388	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Website

alasql.org

duckdb.org

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

duckdb.org/docs

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2014

2018

2015

Current release

1.0.0, June 2024

1.0

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++

Server operating systems

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

server-less

Windows

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

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

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

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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