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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. PostGIS vs. Riak TS

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Widely used in-process key-value store

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	2.01
Rank	#126	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/berkeleydb.html

postgis.net

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

postgis.net/documentation

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2014

1994

2005

2015

Current release

18.1.40, May 2020

3.4.2, February 2024

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

commercial license available

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

Erlang

Server operating systems

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

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

yes

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Erlang

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

yes

based on PostgreSQL

selectable replication factor

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

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

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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