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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. InfinityDB vs. OceanBase vs. Oracle vs. searchxml

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

A distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQL

Widely used RDBMS

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
Wide column store

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

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

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

Score	0.00
Rank	#378	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Score	1.66
Rank	#147	Overall
	#68	Relational DBMS

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Website

alasql.org

boilerbay.com

en.oceanbase.com

www.oracle.com/database

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

en.oceanbase.com/docs/oceanbase-database

docs.oracle.com/en/database

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Boiler Bay Inc.

OceanBase

previously Alibaba and Ant Group

Oracle

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2014

2002

2010

1980

2015

Current release

4.0

4.3.0, April 2024

23c, September 2023

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

Commercial license available

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C++

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

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

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

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

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

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

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

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Access 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
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java

Ada

in MySQL-compatible model
C

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D

in MySQL-compatible model
Delphi

in MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel

in MySQL-compatible model
Erlang

in MySQL-compatible model
Haskell

in MySQL-compatible model
Java

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js)

in MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C

in MySQL-compatible model
OCaml

in MySQL-compatible model
Perl

in MySQL-compatible model
PHP

in MySQL-compatible model
Python

in MySQL-compatible model
Ruby

in MySQL-compatible model
Scheme

in MySQL-compatible model
Tcl

in 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++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible mode

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication using Paxos

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

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

isolation level can be parameterized

multiple readers, single writer

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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