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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Infobright vs. Lovefield vs. openGauss

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.42
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	0.88
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#306	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	1.11
Rank	#175	Overall
	#79	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

google.github.io/lovefield

gitee.com/opengauss
opengauss.org

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

docs.opengauss.org/en
gitee.com/opengauss/docs

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Google

Huawei and openGauss community

Initial release

2014

2005

2014

2019

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

3.0, March 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C, C++, Java

Server operating systems

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

Linux
Windows

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

ANSI SQL 2011

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

JavaScript

C
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

none

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

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

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

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

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