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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Interbase vs. Memgraph vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph 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	3.02
Rank	#98	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

memgraph.com

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

memgraph.com/docs

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Social network pages

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Embarcadero

Memgraph Ltd

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2014

1984

2017

2000

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C and C++

Server operating systems

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

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free and schema-optional

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

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

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Interbase Change Views

Multi-source replication using RAFT

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

relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users, roles and permissions

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