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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Lovefield vs. OpenTenBase vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

An enterprise-level distributed HTAP open source database based on PostgreSQL

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#370	Overall
	#156	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

google.github.io/lovefield

github.com/OpenTenBase/OpenTenBase
www.opentenbase.org

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

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

docs.opentenbase.org
docs.opentenbase.org/en

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Google

OpenAtom Foundation, previously Tencent

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2014

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

2.5, January 2024

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD-3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++, Java

Server operating systems

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
Go
Java
PHP
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

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, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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