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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. SQL.JS vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. SQL.JS vs. Trafodion

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. 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 nodesPort of SQLite to JavaScriptTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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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
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlsql.js.orgtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmlsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.htmltrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffOracleAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release2014201120122014
Current release24.1, May 20242.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaJavaScriptC++, Java
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Data schemeschema-freeSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.yesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenooptionalyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIRESTful HTTP APIJavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScriptAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featurenoneyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnowith Hadoop integrationnoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
noneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes
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)ACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesno 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 cacheyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and rolesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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