DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Immudb vs. ObjectBox vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Immudb vs. ObjectBox vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

An open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.24
Rank	#305	Overall
	#43	Key-value stores

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

github.com/codenotary/immudb
immudb.io

objectbox.io

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.immudb.io

docs.objectbox.io

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Codenotary

ObjectBox Limited

Oracle

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2014

2020

2017

2007

2000

Current release

1.2.3, April 2022

14.1, August 2023

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

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

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

BSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

SQL-like syntax

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol

Proprietary native API

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

.Net
C++
Java

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

Triggers

yes

Live Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

online/offline synchronization between client and server

yes, with selectable consistency level

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
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

configurable

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

optionally

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

yes

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

More information provided by the system vendor

News

On-device Vector Database for Dart/Flutter
21 May 2024

The first On-Device Vector Database: ObjectBox 4.0
16 May 2024

Edge AI: The era of on-device AI
23 April 2024

In-Memory Database Use Cases
15 February 2024

Data Viewer for Objects – announcing ObjectBox Admin
14 November 2023

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