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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Widely used in-process key-value store

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

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

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.60
Rank	#214	Overall
	#34	Document stores
	#106	Relational DBMS

Score	3.70
Rank	#87	Overall
	#14	Key-value stores
	#2	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#295	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/database-technologies/berkeleydb/overview/index.html

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/agershun/alasql

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

terminusdb.com/docs

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2014

1994

2018

Current release

18.1 (Core), June 2018

4.0, December 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

commercial license available

Open Source

GPL V3

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)

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

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

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

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

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

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

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

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 journaling

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

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