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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. SAP HANA vs. SingleStore vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	0.49
Rank	#259	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	2.96
Rank	#103	Overall
	#18	Document stores
	#17	Key-value stores
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	45.84
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	5.91
Rank	#61	Overall
	#34	Relational DBMS

Score	0.15
Rank	#337	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.singlestore.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

help.sap.com/hana

docs.singlestore.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Oracle

SAP

SingleStore Inc.

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2014

2011

2010

2013

1987

Current release

23.3, December 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

8.5, January 2024

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C++, Go

C and C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

64 bit version required

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

Sharding

hash partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

yes

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

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

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

off heap cache

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

yes

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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