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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Machbase Neo vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Postgres-XL

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	0.17
Rank	#337	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.97
Rank	#129	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

machbase.com

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.postgres-xl.org

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

machbase.com/dbms

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Machbase

Oracle

Initial release

2014

2013

2007

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

Current release

V8.0, August 2023

14.1, August 2023

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

free test version available

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

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

Linux
macOS
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

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

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

.Net
C++
Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Live Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

yes, with selectable consistency level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

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

configurable

ACID

MVCC

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

optionally

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

volatile and lookup table

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple password-based access control

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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