DBMS > AlaSQL vs. jBASE vs. Oracle vs. OushuDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. jBASE vs. Oracle vs. OushuDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Widely used RDBMS

A data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#363	Overall
	#154	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

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

www.oracle.com/database

www.oushu.com/product/oushuDB

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

docs.oracle.com/en/database

www.oushu.com/documentation

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Oracle

Oushu

Initial release

2014

1991

1980

Current release

5.7

23c, September 2023

4.0.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C and C++

Server operating systems

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

AIX
Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

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

SQL

Support of SQL

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

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

with proprietary extensions

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

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

C
C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

Hadoop integration

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

isolation level can be parameterized

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Kerberos, SSL and role based access

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