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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. OpenQM vs. Oracle Coherence vs. PouchDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Key-value store

Document store

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Score	0.49
Rank	#259	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	2.02
Rank	#131	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	2.35
Rank	#116	Overall
	#22	Document stores

Website

alasql.org

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

pouchdb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

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

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Oracle

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2014

1993

2007

2012

Current release

3.4-12

14.1, August 2023

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

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

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

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

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

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

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

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

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

.Net
C++
Java

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Live Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

yes, with selectable consistency level

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

optionally

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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