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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. OpenQM vs. PostgreSQL vs. STSdb vs. Typesense

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

Widely used open source RDBMS

Developed as objectoriented DBMS (Postgres), gradually enhanced with 'standards' like SQL

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

A typo-tolerant, in-memory search engine optimized for instant search-as-you-type experiences and developer productivity

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

with object oriented extensions, e.g.: user defined types/functions and inheritance. Handling of key/value pairs with hstore module.

Key-value store

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Apache Age
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

with pgvector extension

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

Score	0.27
Rank	#298	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	645.54
Rank	#4	Overall
	#4	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Score	0.79
Rank	#210	Overall
	#14	Search engines

Website

alasql.org

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

www.postgresql.org

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

typesense.org

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.postgresql.org/docs

typesense.org/docs

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

PostgreSQL Global Development Group

www.postgresql.org/developer

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2014

1993

1989

1989: Postgres, 1996: PostgreSQL

2011

2015

Current release

3.4-12

16.3, May 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

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

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OpenBSD
OS X
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

yes

schema-free

pre-defined schema optional

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

standard with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

.NET Client API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C#
Java

.Net

community maintained
Clojure

community maintained
Dart

community maintained
Go

community maintained
Java

community maintained
JavaScript
Perl

community maintained
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust

community maintained
Swift

community maintained

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

partitioning by range, list and (since PostgreSQL 11) by hash

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

none

Multi-source replication using RAFT

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

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 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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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