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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. InfinityDB vs. searchxml

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Name	AlaSQL  Xexclude from comparison	Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL former name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparison	InfinityDB  Xexclude from comparison	searchxml  Xexclude from comparison
Description	JavaScript DBMS library	An online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on Greenplum	A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface	DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database model	Document store Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS	Key-value store	Native XML DBMS Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.51 Rank #256   Overall #40   Document stores #118   Relational DBMS	Score 0.76 Rank #220   Overall #102   Relational DBMS	Score 0.08 Rank #365   Overall #55   Key-value stores	Score 0.03 Rank #390   Overall #7   Native XML DBMS #24   Search engines
Website	alasql.org	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresql	boilerbay.com	www.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentation	github.com/­AlaSQL/­alasql	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overview	boilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manual	www.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
Developer	Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff	Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group	Boiler Bay Inc.	informationpartners gmbh
Initial release	2014	2016	2002	2015
Current release			4.0	1.0
License Commercial or Open Source	Open Source MIT-License	commercial	commercial	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	yes	no	no
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Implementation language	JavaScript		Java	C++
Server operating systems	server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)	hosted	All OS with a Java VM	Windows
Data scheme	schema-free	yes	yes nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgrade	schema-free
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	no	yes	yes all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays	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.	no	yes	no	yes
Secondary indexes	no	yes	no manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability	yes
SQL Support of SQL	Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.	yes	no	no
APIs and other access methods	JavaScript API	JDBC ODBC	Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)	RESTful HTTP API WebDAV XQuery XSLT
Supported programming languages	JavaScript	C Java Perl Python R	Java	C++ most other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	yes	no	yes on the application server
Triggers	yes	yes	no	no
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	none	Sharding Implicit feature of the cloud service	none	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	none	yes Implicit feature of the cloud service	none	yes sychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	none	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes	yes	no manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	yes only for local storage and DOM-storage	ACID	ACID Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads	multiple readers, single writer
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data		yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	yes	no	no	no
User concepts Access control	no	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	no	Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services
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	AlaSQL	Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL former name was HybridDB	InfinityDB	searchxml
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