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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Galaxybase vs. Linter vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Oracle

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

RDBMS for high security requirements

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

Widely used RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#346	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Score	4.48
Rank	#75	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

galaxybase.com

linter.ru

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

www.oracle.com/database

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.oracle.com/en/database

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

relex.ru

Microsoft

Oracle

Initial release

2014

2017

1990

2012

1980

Current release

Nov 20, November 2021

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C and Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Data scheme

schema-free

Strong typed schema

yes

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Go
Java
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined procedures and functions

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

optimistic locking

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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