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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Interbase vs. NCache vs. OpenTSDB vs. Oracle

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Widely used RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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	4.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	1.68
Rank	#146	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

opentsdb.net

www.oracle.com/database

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

docs.oracle.com/en/database

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Embarcadero

Alachisoft

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Oracle

Initial release

2014

1984

2005

2011

1980

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

5.3.3, April 2024

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

LGPL

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

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

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

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

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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

yes

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 syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

HTTP API
Telnet API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

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

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

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

Interbase procedure and trigger language

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Interbase Change Views

yes, with selectable consistency level

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

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

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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