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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Ingres vs. Interbase vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Ingres vs. Interbase vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. LokiJS

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonKyligence Enterprise  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryWell established RDBMSLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandA distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache KylinIn-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score0.40
Rank#269  Overall
#124  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websitealasql.orgwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasekyligence.io/­kyligence-enterprisegithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.actian.com/­ingresdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasetechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffActian CorporationEmbarcaderoKyligence, Inc.
Initial release20141974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s198420162014
Current release11.2, May 2022InterBase 2020, December 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptCCJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesno
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.nono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableno infoexport as XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesyesANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)no
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript API.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslynonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneIngres ReplicatorInterbase Change Viewsnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMVCCyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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