DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB vs. Riak TS

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB vs. Riak TS

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

An online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on Greenplum

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	0.76
Rank	#220	Overall
	#102	Relational DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#381	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores
	#14	Vector DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.jaguardb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/analyticdb-for-postgresql/latest/product-introduction-overview

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

DataJaguar, Inc.

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2014

2016

2010

2015

Current release

3.3 July 2023

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Erlang

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Erlang

Server operating systems

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

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users can be defined per database

rights management via user accounts

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