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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Rockset vs. ToroDB vs. TypeDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Rockset vs. ToroDB vs. TypeDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQLTypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Document storeDocument storeGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS infoOften described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score3.05
Rank#97  Overall
#17  Document stores
#16  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.70
Rank#230  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#106  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlrockset.comgithub.com/­torodb/­servertypedb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmldocs.rockset.comtypedb.com/­docs
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffOracleRockset8KdataVaticle
Initial release20142011201920162016
Current release24.1, May 20242.26.3, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)commercialOpen Source infoAGPL-V3Open Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaC++JavaJava
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86
hostedAll OS with a Java 7 VMLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.schema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenooptionaldynamic typingyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_idyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono infoingestion from XML files supportednono
Secondary indexesnoyesall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL-like DML and DDL statementsRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIRESTful HTTP APIHTTP RESTgRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingAutomatic shardingShardingSharding infoby using Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featureyesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoby using Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnowith Hadoop integrationnoyes infoby using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono infosubstituted by the relationship feature
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)nonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infooff heap cacheno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleAccess rights for users and rolesyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
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AlaSQLOracle NoSQLRocksetToroDBTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn
Specific characteristicsTypeDB is a polymorphic database with a conceptual data model, a strong subtyping...
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Competitive advantagesTypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
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Typical application scenariosLife sciences : TypeDB makes working with biological data much easier and accelerates...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache f or language drivers, and AGPL and Commercial for the database server. The...
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