DBMS > AlaSQL vs. EventStoreDB vs. Lovefield vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. EventStoreDB vs. Lovefield vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Widely used in-process key-value store

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Event Store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	1.10
Rank	#179	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	2.21
Rank	#117	Overall
	#20	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.eventstore.com

google.github.io/lovefield

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

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

developers.eventstore.com

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

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

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Event Store Limited

Google

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2014

2012

2014

1994

2009

Current release

21.2, February 2021

2.1.12, February 2017

18.1.40, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

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

Server operating systems

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

Linux
Windows

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.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

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

yes

only for the SQL API

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

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, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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