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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Graph Engine vs. Immudb vs. Lovefield

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

An open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.49
Rank	#259	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	0.62
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	0.25
Rank	#307	Overall
	#43	Key-value stores

Score	0.32
Rank	#290	Overall
	#132	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.graphengine.io

github.com/codenotary/immudb
immudb.io

google.github.io/lovefield

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

docs.immudb.io

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

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Microsoft

Codenotary

Google

Initial release

2014

2010

2020

2014

Current release

1.2.3, April 2022

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

.NET and C

JavaScript

Server operating systems

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

.NET

BSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like syntax

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

RESTful HTTP API

gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

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

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

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