DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. ObjectBox vs. RDF4J vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. ObjectBox vs. RDF4J vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	77.99
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

alasql.org

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

objectbox.io

rdf4j.org

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

docs.objectbox.io

rdf4j.org/documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Microsoft

ObjectBox Limited

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2014

2010

2017

2004

2013

Current release

V12

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

C and C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

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

hosted

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

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.

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary native API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

Java
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, with always 3 replicas available

online/offline synchronization between client and server

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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 support depends on the API used

yes

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 storage is supported as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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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