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

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonOracle  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseWidely used RDBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store infowith Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS infowith Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS infosince Oracle 23
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.53
Rank#258  Overall
#40  Document stores
#119  Relational DBMS
Score5.51
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Score1.83
Rank#147  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score1221.06
Rank#1  Overall
#1  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbaseopentsdb.netwww.oracle.com/­database
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbaseopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmldocs.oracle.com/­en/­database
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffEmbarcaderocurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsOracle
Initial release2014198420111980
Current releaseInterBase 2020, December 201923c, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infoLGPLcommercial inforestricted free version is available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaScriptCJavaC and C++
Server operating systemsserver-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 schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes infoSchemaless in JSON and XML columns
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyes
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 possiblenoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesnoyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Telnet API
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
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 infoStored proceduresnoyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languagenoPL/SQL infoalso stored procedures in Java possible
Triggersyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infobased on HBaseSharding, horizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneInterbase Change Viewsselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono infocan be realized in PL/SQL
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDnoACID infoisolation level can be parameterized
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.yesyesnoyes infoVersion 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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