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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Elasticsearch vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Typesense

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonTypesense  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricOracles in-memory data grid solutionA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesA typo-tolerant, in-memory search engine optimized for instant search-as-you-type experiences and developer productivity
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Search engineKey-value storeDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Search engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector 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
Score132.83
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score1.97
Rank#129  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score3.05
Rank#97  Overall
#17  Document stores
#16  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score0.76
Rank#219  Overall
#14  Search engines
Websitealasql.orgwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencewww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqltypesense.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmldocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencedocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmltypesense.org/­docs
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffElasticOracleOracle
Initial release20142010200720112015
Current release8.6, January 202314.1, August 202324.1, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoElastic LicensecommercialOpen Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)All OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Solaris SPARC/x86
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-freeSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.schema-free infopre-defined schema optional
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesoptionalyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexednoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL-like query languagenoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net infocommunity maintained
Clojure infocommunity maintained
Dart infocommunity maintained
Go infocommunity maintained
Java infocommunity maintained
JavaScript
Perl infocommunity maintained
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust infocommunity maintained
Swift infocommunity maintained
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnonono
Triggersyesyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyes infoLive Eventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesyes, with selectable consistency levelElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featureMulti-source replication using RAFT
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoES-Hadoop Connectornowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoconfigurableconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)no
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyes infooptionallyyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesMemcached and Redis integrationyesyes infooff heap cacheyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationAccess rights for users and roles

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