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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. ObjectBox vs. Oracle vs. ScyllaDB vs. SQLite

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonOracle  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileWidely used RDBMSCassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column storeWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Object oriented DBMSRelational DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store infowith Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS infowith Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS infosince Oracle 23
Key-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score1236.29
Rank#1  Overall
#1  Relational DBMS
Score4.75
Rank#68  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Score114.32
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgobjectbox.iowww.oracle.com/­databasewww.scylladb.comwww.sqlite.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.objectbox.iodocs.oracle.com/­en/­databasedocs.scylladb.comwww.sqlite.org/­docs.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffObjectBox LimitedOracleScyllaDBDwayne Richard Hipp
Initial release20142017198020152000
Current release23c, September 2023ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 20243.45.3  (15 April 2024), April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license availableOpen Source infoPublic Domain
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC and C++C and C++C++C
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Linuxserver-less
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infoSchemaless in JSON and XML columnsschema-freeyes infodynamic column types
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infocluster global secondary indicesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)yes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIProprietary native APIJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary protocol (CQL) infocompatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift
ADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (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
For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby
Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoPL/SQL infoalso stored procedures in Java possibleyes, Luano
Triggersyesnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding, horizontal partitioningShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneonline/offline synchronization between client and serverMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possiblenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono infocan be realized in PL/SQLnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACID infoisolation level can be parameterizedno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infovia file-system locks
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infoVersion 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'yes infoin-memory tablesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per objectno
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Specific characteristicsScyllaDB is engineered to deliver predictable performance at scale. It’s adopted...
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Competitive advantagesHighly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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Typical application scenariosScyllaDB is ideal for applications that require high throughput and low latency at...
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Key customersDiscord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metricsScyllaDB typically offers ~75% total cost of ownership savings, with ~5X higher throughput...
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Licensing and pricing modelsScyllaDB Open Source - free open source software (AGPL) ScyllaDB Enterprise - subscription-based...
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