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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. EJDB vs. Faircom EDGE vs. HarperDB vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environments

Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.02
Rank	#368	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	0.55
Rank	#248	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

www.harperdb.io

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.html

docs.harperdb.io/docs

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Softmotions

FairCom Corporation

HarperDB

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2014

2012

1979

2017

1998

Current release

V3, October 2020

3.1, August 2021

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

ANSI C, C++

Node.js

Server operating systems

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

server-less

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

Linux
OS X

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

dynamic schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

yes

JSON data types

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

ANSI SQL queries

SQL-like data manipulation statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

in-process shared library

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net

.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

when using SQL

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

yes, using LMDB

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Fine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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