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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Memcached vs. mSQL vs. ObjectBox vs. Oracle

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Widely used RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series 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

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

Score	19.42
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.memcached.org

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

objectbox.io

www.oracle.com/database

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

docs.objectbox.io

docs.oracle.com/en/database

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Hughes Technologies

ObjectBox Limited

Oracle

Initial release

2014

2003

1994

2017

1980

Current release

1.6.25, March 2024

4.4, October 2021

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C and C++

Server operating systems

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

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

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

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

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

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

none

online/offline synchronization between client and server

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

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

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

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

News

Edge AI: The era of on-device AI
23 April 2024

In-Memory Database Use Cases
15 February 2024

Data Viewer for Objects – announcing ObjectBox Admin
14 November 2023

Vector Databases for Edge AI
9 August 2023

Vector Database Release for Flutter / Dart + Python
13 June 2023

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