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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Informix vs. jBASE vs. Kinetica vs. Oracle

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

A secure embeddable database from IBM, positioned besides IBM Db2 as a relatively low-cost product optimized for OLTP and Internet of Things data

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Widely used RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Since Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes compatible with MongoDB

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

with Informix TimeSeries Extension

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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

Score	17.87
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.64
Rank	#236	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.ibm.com/products/informix

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

www.kinetica.com

www.oracle.com/database

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

informix.hcldoc.com
www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGU8G/welcomeIfxServers.html

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

docs.kinetica.com

docs.oracle.com/en/database

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

IBM, HCL Technologies

Effective May 1st, 2017, HCL took on development, technical support, and product management teams, and works jointly with IBM on product strategy, marketing, and sales.

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Kinetica

Oracle

Initial release

2014

1984

1991

2012

1980

Current release

14.10.FC5, November 2020

5.7

7.1, August 2021

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C, C++ and Java

C, C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux

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

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Since Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes

optional

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
JSON API

MongoDB compatible
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

GPU vRAM or System RAM

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authentication, authorization, and auditing controls

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights for users and roles on table level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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