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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Immudb vs. OpenEdge 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.

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.24
Rank	#295	Overall
	#42	Key-value stores

Score	3.69
Rank	#78	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	103.35
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

github.com/codenotary/immudb
immudb.io

www.progress.com/openedge

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.immudb.io

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Codenotary

Progress Software Corporation

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2014

2020

1984

2000

Current release

1.2.3, April 2022

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

3.46.1 (13 August 2024), August 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Server operating systems

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

BSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

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.

yes

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

close to SQL 92

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

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

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

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

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

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 and groups

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