DBMS > Altibase vs. etcd vs. Memcached vs. Oracle vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. etcd vs. Memcached vs. Oracle vs. SQL.JS

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

A distributed reliable key-value store

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

Widely used RDBMS

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	7.25
Rank	#54	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

Score	19.42
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

etcd.io
github.com/etcd-io/etcd

www.memcached.org

www.oracle.com/database

sql.js.org

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

etcd.io/docs
github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/Documentation

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

docs.oracle.com/en/database

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Altibase

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Oracle

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

1999

2003

1980

2012

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

3.4, August 2019

1.6.25, March 2024

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

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

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

yes, watching key changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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