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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. EsgynDB vs. LokiJS vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. EsgynDB vs. LokiJS vs. Riak KV

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryAn online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on GreenplumEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionIn-memory JavaScript DBMSDistributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
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
Score0.76
Rank#220  Overall
#102  Relational DBMS
Score0.25
Rank#312  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websitealasql.orgwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresqlwww.esgyn.cngithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overviewtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAlibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development GroupEsgynOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release20142016201520142009
Current release3.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialcommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++, JavaJavaScriptErlang
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnono
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.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infovia viewsrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesyesnono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JavaScript APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
Java
Perl
Python
R
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetJavaScriptC infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesJava Stored ProceduresView functions in JavaScriptErlang
Triggersyesyesnoyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingnoneSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication between multi datacentersnoneselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnono infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyes, using Riak Security

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