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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. SingleStore vs. SQL.JS vs. Transbase

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
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 nodesMySQL 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 typePort of SQLite to JavaScriptA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
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Score0.49
Rank#259  Overall
#40  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score2.96
Rank#103  Overall
#18  Document stores
#17  Key-value stores
#52  Relational DBMS
Score5.91
Rank#61  Overall
#34  Relational DBMS
Score0.57
Rank#248  Overall
#114  Relational DBMS
Score0.15
Rank#337  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlwww.singlestore.comsql.js.orgwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmldocs.singlestore.comsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.htmlwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffOracleSingleStore Inc.Alon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20142011201320121987
Current release23.3, December 20238.5, January 2024Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)commercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Sourcecommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaC++, GoJavaScriptC and C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86
Linux info64 bit version requiredserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.yesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenooptionalyesyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infobut no triggers and foreign keysyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIRESTful HTTP APICluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
JavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScriptC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesnoyes
Triggersyesnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infohash partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featureSource-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodesnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnowith Hadoop integrationno infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculationsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Immediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesyes
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)ACIDACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.no infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infooff heap cacheyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and rolesFine grained access control via users, groups and rolesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
AlaSQLOracle NoSQLSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQLSQL.JSTransbase
Specific characteristicsSingleStore offers a fully-managed , distributed, highly-scalable SQL database designed...
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Competitive advantagesSingleStore’s competitive advantages include: Easy and Simplified Architecture with...
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Typical application scenariosDriving Fast Analytics: SingleStore delivers the fastest and most scalable reporting...
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Key customersIEX Cloud : Improves Financial Data Distribution Speed 15x with Singlestore DB Comcast,...
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Market metricsCustomers in various industries worldwide including US and International Industry...
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Licensing and pricing modelsF ree Tier and Enterprise Edition
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