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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Hypertable vs. LokiJS vs. Rockset

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopIn-memory JavaScript DBMSA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesWide column storeDocument storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.77
Rank#214  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Websitealasql.orgwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputegithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSrockset.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputetechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAlibabaHypertable Inc.Rockset
Initial release20142016200920142019
Current release0.9.8.11, March 2016
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonoyes
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++JavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnonodynamic typing
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 infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesnonorestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyes infovia viewsall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL-like query languagenonoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
C++ API
Thrift
JavaScript APIHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJavaC++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions infoin JavanoView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingnoneAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factor on file system levelnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenonono 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.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and rolesnonoAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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