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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Infobright vs. ObjectBox vs. RethinkDB vs. Sequoiadb

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Infobright vs. ObjectBox vs. RethinkDB vs. Sequoiadb

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryHigh performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSObject oriented DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.96
Rank#194  Overall
#91  Relational DBMS
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.45
Rank#261  Overall
#41  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbobjectbox.iorethinkdb.comwww.sequoiadb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.objectbox.iorethinkdb.com/­docswww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.ObjectBox LimitedThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Sequoiadb Ltd.
Initial release20142005201720092013
Current release2.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptCC and C++C++C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regex
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnono infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesnonoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native APIproprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoJavaScript
TriggersyesnonoClient-side triggers through changefeedsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneSharding inforange basedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationonline/offline synchronization between client and serverSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDAtomic single-document operationsDocument is locked during a transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCC basedyes
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.yesyesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesyesyes infousers and table-level permissionssimple password-based access control
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