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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. JaguarDB vs. Lovefield vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	2.95
Rank	#100	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#17	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

alasql.org

www.jaguardb.com

google.github.io/lovefield

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

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

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

DataJaguar, Inc.

Google

Oracle

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2014

2015

2014

2011

2019

Current release

3.3 July 2023

2.1.12, February 2017

23.3, December 2023

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

JavaScript

Java

Clojure

Server operating systems

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

Linux

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

none

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

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

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

off heap cache

User concepts

Access control

rights management via user accounts

Access rights for users and roles

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