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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. InfinityDB vs. ObjectBox vs. OpenMLDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectors

An open-source machine learning database that provides a feature platform for training and inference

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#365	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#359	Overall
	#36	Time Series DBMS

Website

alasql.org

boilerbay.com

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

openmldb.ai

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

docs.objectbox.io

openmldb.ai/docs/zh/main

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Boiler Bay Inc.

ObjectBox Limited

4 Paradigm Inc.

Initial release

2014

2002

2017

2020

Current release

4.0

4.0 (May 2024)

2024-2 February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C and C++

C++, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

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

All OS with a Java VM

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

yes

Fixed schema

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

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

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

Proprietary native API

JDBC
SQLAlchemy

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java

C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift

C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Data sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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