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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. HyperSQL vs. OpenQM vs. Oracle vs. YTsaurus

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Widely used RDBMS

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

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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Score	0.42
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	3.14
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#291	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1286.59
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	0.15
Rank	#323	Overall
	#44	Document stores
	#47	Key-value stores

Website

alasql.org

hsqldb.org

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

www.oracle.com/database

ytsaurus.tech

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

docs.oracle.com/en/database

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Oracle

Yandex

Initial release

2014

2001

1993

1980

2023

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

3.4-12

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

based on BSD license

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

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

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

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

Ubuntu

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

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

with proprietary extensions

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

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

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

yes

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

yes

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

isolation level can be parameterized

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access Control Lists

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