DBMS > AlaSQL vs. LevelDB vs. OushuDB vs. SQL.JS vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. LevelDB vs. OushuDB vs. SQL.JS vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

A data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
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	#121	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.04
Rank	#363	Overall
	#154	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

github.com/google/leveldb

www.oushu.com/product/oushuDB

sql.js.org

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

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

www.oushu.com/documentation

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Google

Oushu

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2014

2011

2012

2000

Current release

1.23, February 2021

4.0.1, August 2020

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

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

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

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

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

C
C++

JavaScript

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

none

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

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

with automatic compression on writes

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Kerberos, SSL and role based access

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