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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Interbase vs. LokiJS vs. Splice Machine

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environments

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.02
Rank	#368	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	4.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.54
Rank	#250	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

splicemachine.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.html

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

FairCom Corporation

Embarcadero

Splice Machine

Initial release

2014

1979

1984

2014

Current release

V3, October 2020

InterBase 2020, December 2019

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

ANSI C, C++

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

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

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

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

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

ANSI SQL queries

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

JavaScript

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

none

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

Interbase Change Views

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Fine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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