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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Interbase vs. Lovefield vs. Oracle Rdb

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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

Score	4.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#184	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

google.github.io/lovefield

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

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

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Embarcadero

Google

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Initial release

2014

1984

2014

1984

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

2.1.12, February 2017

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Server operating systems

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

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

HP Open VMS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

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.

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Interbase Change Views

none

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

yes, on a single node

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

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

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