DBMS > AlaSQL vs. etcd vs. InfinityDB vs. Oracle vs. PouchDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. etcd vs. InfinityDB vs. Oracle vs. PouchDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

A distributed reliable key-value store

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

Widely used RDBMS

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

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

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

Score	7.03
Rank	#54	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

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

Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	2.34
Rank	#112	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Website

alasql.org

etcd.io
github.com/etcd-io/etcd

boilerbay.com

www.oracle.com/database

pouchdb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

etcd.io/docs
github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/Documentation

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

docs.oracle.com/en/database

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Boiler Bay Inc.

Oracle

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2014

2002

1980

2012

Current release

3.4, August 2019

4.0

23c, September 2023

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C and C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

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

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

All OS with a Java VM

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

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

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

via views

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

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

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)

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl

Java

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

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

yes, watching key changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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'

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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