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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. EJDB vs. Interbase vs. LokiJS vs. StarRocks

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonStarRocks  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Light-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandIn-memory JavaScript DBMSAn open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics infoForked from Apache Doris
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.31
Rank#296  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.93
Rank#198  Overall
#93  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orggithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasegithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.starrocks.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mddocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasetechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdocs.starrocks.io/­en-us/­latest/­introduction/­StarRocks_intro
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffSoftmotionsEmbarcaderoThe Linux Foundation infosince Feb 2023
Initial release20142012198420142020
Current releaseInterBase 2020, December 20192.5.3, March 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoGPLv2commercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptCCJavaScriptC++, Java
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)server-lessAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesnoyes
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.nono infoexport as XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIin-process shared libraryADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JavaScript APIJDBC
MySQL protocol
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
JavaScriptJava
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageView functions in JavaScriptuser defined functions
Triggersyesnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenonenonehorizontal partitioning (by range and hash)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneInterbase Change Viewsnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/Write Lockingyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoRole based access control and fine grained access rights

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