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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. ObjectBox vs. SiteWhere vs. SQLite

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Object oriented DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.49
Rank#259  Overall
#40  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score1.22
Rank#172  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#367  Overall
#36  Time Series DBMS
Score116.01
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgobjectbox.iogithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewherewww.sqlite.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.objectbox.iositewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmlwww.sqlite.org/­docs.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffObjectBox LimitedSiteWhereDwayne Richard Hipp
Initial release2014201720102000
Current release3.45.3  (15 April 2024), April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoPublic Domain
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC and C++JavaC
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less
Data schemeschema-freeyespredefined schemeyes infodynamic column types
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes 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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nonoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIProprietary native APIHTTP RESTADO.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
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 proceduresnonono
Triggersyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infobased on HBasenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneonline/offline synchronization between client and serverselectable replication factor infobased on HBasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infovia file-system locks
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptno
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