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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. InfinityDB vs. OceanBase vs. Oracle vs. Transwarp Hippo

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonOceanBase  Xexclude from comparisonOracle  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp Hippo  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceA distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQLWidely used RDBMSCloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Wide column store
Document store
Graph DBMS infowith Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store infowith Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS infowith Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS infosince Oracle 23
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#378  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score1.66
Rank#147  Overall
#68  Relational DBMS
Score1236.29
Rank#1  Overall
#1  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#13  Vector DBMS
Websitealasql.orgboilerbay.comen.oceanbase.comwww.oracle.com/­databasewww.transwarp.cn/­en/­subproduct/­hippo
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualen.oceanbase.com/­docs/­oceanbase-databasedocs.oracle.com/­en/­database
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffBoiler Bay Inc.OceanBase infopreviously Alibaba and Ant GroupOracle
Initial release20142002201019802023
Current release4.04.3.0, April 202423c, September 20231.0, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infoCommercial license availablecommercial inforestricted free version is availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaC++C and C++C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)All OS with a Java VMLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeyesyes infoSchemaless in JSON and XML columns
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyesyesVector, Numeric and String
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyesyesno
Secondary indexesnono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noyesyes infowith proprietary extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIAccess via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJavaAda infoin MySQL-compatible model
C infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++ infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D infoin MySQL-compatible model
Delphi infoin MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel infoin MySQL-compatible model
Erlang infoin MySQL-compatible model
Haskell infoin MySQL-compatible model
Java infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js) infoin MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C infoin MySQL-compatible model
OCaml infoin MySQL-compatible model
Perl infoin MySQL-compatible model
PHP infoin MySQL-compatible model
Python infoin MySQL-compatible model
Ruby infoin MySQL-compatible model
Scheme infoin MySQL-compatible model
Tcl infoin MySQL-compatible model
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++
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoPL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible modePL/SQL infoalso stored procedures in Java possibleno
Triggersyesnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonehorizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)Sharding, horizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneMulti-source replication using PaxosMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono infocan be realized in PL/SQLno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsACIDACID infoisolation level can be parameterizedno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infoVersion 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'yes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole based access control and fine grained access rights

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