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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. EJDB vs. Interbase vs. ObjectBox vs. OpenTSDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Light-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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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
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Websitealasql.orggithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbaseobjectbox.ioopentsdb.net
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mddocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasedocs.objectbox.ioopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffSoftmotionsEmbarcaderoObjectBox Limitedcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors
Initial release20142012198420172011
Current releaseInterBase 2020, December 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoGPLv2commercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoLGPL
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptCCC and C++Java
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)server-lessAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tags
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 indexesnonoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noyesnono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIin-process shared libraryADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native APIHTTP API
Telnet API
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
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languagenono
Triggersyesnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenonenoneSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneInterbase Change Viewsonline/offline synchronization between client and serverselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/Write Lockingyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyes
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.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesno
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AlaSQLEJDBInterbaseObjectBoxOpenTSDB
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