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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. LevelDB vs. Linter vs. OpenSearch vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

RDBMS for high security requirements

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

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

Score	2.35
Rank	#111	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	0.09
Rank	#346	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

alasql.org

github.com/google/leveldb

linter.ru

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Google

relex.ru

Amazon Web Services

Sybase, SAP

Initial release

2014

2011

1990

2021

1993

Current release

1.23, February 2021

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

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

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

with automatic compression on writes

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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