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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Memcached vs. OpenEdge vs. Oracle Rdb vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Memcached vs. OpenEdge vs. Oracle Rdb vs. SiteWhere

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingApplication development environment with integrated database management systemM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score3.51
Rank#86  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#184  Overall
#85  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.memcached.orgwww.progress.com/­openedgewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikidocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmlsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalProgress Software CorporationOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)SiteWhere
Initial release20142003198419842010
Current release1.6.25, March 2024OpenEdge 12.2, March 20207.4.1.1, 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptCJava
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
HP Open VMSLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)predefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyesnono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noyes infoclose to SQL 92yesno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIProprietary protocolJDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes
Triggersyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonehorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4Sharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallitySource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDyes, on a single nodeno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStoragenoyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolUsers and groupsUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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