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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Graph Engine vs. Lovefield vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Quasardb

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.61
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#184  Overall
#85  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.graphengine.iogoogle.github.io/­lovefieldwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlquasar.ai
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmldoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffMicrosoftGoogleOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)quasardb
Initial release20142010201419842009
Current release2.1.12, February 20177.4.1.1, 20213.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScript.NET and CJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js).NETserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariHP Open VMSBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes infointeger and binary
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIRESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
JavaScript.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnono
TriggersyesnoUsing read-only observersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningnoneSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDyes, on a single nodeACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infousing MemoryDBnoyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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