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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Elasticsearch vs. Oracle Berkeley DB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene

Elasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric

Widely used in-process key-value store

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Search engine
Vector DBMS

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.39
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	131.38
Rank	#8	Overall
	#1	Search engines
	#1	Vector DBMS

Score	1.74
Rank	#129	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

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

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index.html

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Elastic

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Initial release

2014

2010

1994

Current release

8.6, January 2023

18.1.40, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Elastic License

Open Source

commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

Server operating systems

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

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

only for the SQL API

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Memcached and Redis integration

yes

User concepts

Access control

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