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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Linter vs. OpenTSDB vs. Oracle vs. searchxml

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

RDBMS for high security requirements

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Widely used RDBMS

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#350	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#142	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Website

alasql.org

linter.ru

opentsdb.net

www.oracle.com/database

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

docs.oracle.com/en/database

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

relex.ru

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Oracle

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2014

1990

2011

1980

2015

Current release

23c, September 2023

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

LGPL

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C and C++

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

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

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

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

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

HTTP API
Telnet API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

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

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

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

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

isolation level can be parameterized

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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