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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Graph Engine vs. Oracle Rdb vs. SQLite vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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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

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Distributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Search engine

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.61
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	1.08
Rank	#184	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#350	Overall
	#153	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.graphengine.io

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

www.sqlite.org

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/argodb

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

docs.transwarp.cn/#/documents-support/docs?category=ARGODB

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Microsoft

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Transwarp

Initial release

2014

2010

1984

2000

Current release

7.4.1.1, 2021

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

.NET and C

Server operating systems

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

.NET

HP Open VMS

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

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

yes, on a single node

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

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