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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Graph Engine vs. Memcached vs. Microsoft Access vs. Oracle

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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

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries.

The Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)

Widely used RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

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

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

Score	20.74
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	105.40
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	1234.27
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.graphengine.io

www.memcached.org

www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/access

www.oracle.com/database

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

docs.oracle.com/en/database

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Microsoft

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Microsoft

Oracle

Initial release

2014

2010

2003

1992

1980

Current release

1.6.25, March 2024

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

.NET and C

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

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

.NET

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

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

Data scheme

schema-free

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

but not compliant to any SQL standard

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET

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

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

none

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

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

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

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

yes

but no files for transaction logging

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

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

a simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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