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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Ehcache vs. Interbase vs. IRONdb vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Ehcache vs. Interbase vs. IRONdb vs. LokiJS

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityIn-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score4.89
Rank#67  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websitealasql.orgwww.ehcache.orgwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/github.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.ehcache.org/­documentationdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasedocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedtechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGEmbarcaderoCirconus LLC.
Initial release20142009198420172014
Current release3.10.0, March 2022InterBase 2020, December 2019V0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaCC and C++JavaScript
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)All OS with a Java VMAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsno
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.nonono infoexport as XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesnonoyesnoyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)no
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJCacheADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIJavaScript API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJava.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageyes, in LuaView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyesyes infoCache Event Listenersyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoby using Terracotta ServernoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoby using Terracotta ServerInterbase Change Viewsconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Immediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceACIDnono infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono

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