DBMS > AlaSQL vs. HugeGraph vs. ObjectBox vs. SQL.JS vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. HugeGraph vs. ObjectBox vs. SQL.JS vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

objectbox.io

sql.js.org

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

docs.objectbox.io

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Baidu

ObjectBox Limited

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2014

2018

2017

2012

2000

Current release

0.9

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C and C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

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

Linux
macOS
Unix

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

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

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

also supports composite index and range index

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

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

Proprietary native API

JavaScript API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Groovy
Java
Python

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

JavaScript

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

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

online/offline synchronization between client and server

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

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

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

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

Users, roles and permissions

yes

More information provided by the system vendor

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14 November 2023

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9 August 2023

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