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

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

Widely used RDBMS

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

Cloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

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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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	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	1.78
Rank	#140	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#13	Vector DBMS

Website

alasql.org

boilerbay.com

www.oracle.com/database

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

www.transwarp.cn/en/subproduct/hippo

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

docs.oracle.com/en/database

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Boiler Bay Inc.

Oracle

TmaxSoft

Initial release

2014

2002

1980

2003

2023

Current release

4.0

23c, September 2023

6, April 2015

1.0, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

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 and C++

C and Assembler

C++

Server operating systems

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

All OS with a Java VM

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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

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

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)

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

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

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

C++
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

planned for next version

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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