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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Interbase vs. OpenEdge vs. SQream DB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandApplication development environment with integrated database management systema GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score3.45
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.progress.com/­openedgesqream.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasedocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestdocs.sqream.com
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffEmbarcaderoProgress Software CorporationSQream Technologies
Initial release2014198419842017
Current releaseInterBase 2020, December 2019OpenEdge 12.2, March 20202022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptCC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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 infoexport as XML data possibleyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesyes infoclose to SQL 92yes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageyesuser defined functions in Python
Triggersyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonehorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4horizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneInterbase Change ViewsSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers and groups

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