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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. MySQL vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Qdrant

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Widely used open source RDBMS

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

A high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Key-value store

Vector 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	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

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

Score	1.28
Rank	#167	Overall
	#8	Vector DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.mysql.com

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

dev.mysql.com/doc

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

qdrant.tech/documentation

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Oracle

Qdrant

Initial release

2014

1995

2007

2021

Current release

8.4.0, April 2024

14.1, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C and C++

Java

Rust

Server operating systems

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

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean

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

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
C++
Java

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

Collection-level replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency, tunable consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

Key-based authentication

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