DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. Cachelot.io vs. Couchbase

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. Cachelot.io vs. Couchbase

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

A fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time access

A RDF storage and query DBMS, shipped as an optional-use component of the Apache Jena framework

In-memory caching system

A distributed document store with integrated cache, a powerful search engine, in-built operational and analytical capabilities, and an embedded mobile database

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Key-value store

originating from the former Membase product and supporting the Memcached protocol
Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	0.26
Rank	#301	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	3.75
Rank	#84	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Score	17.30
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Website

alasql.org

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

jena.apache.org/documentation/tdb/index.html

cachelot.io

www.couchbase.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

jena.apache.org/documentation/tdb/index.html

docs.couchbase.com

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Couchbase, Inc.

Initial release

2014

2016

2000

2015

2011

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

Server: 7.2, June 2023; Mobile: 3.1, March 2022; Couchbase Capella (DBaaS), June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

Open Source

Business Source License (BSL 1.1); Commercial licenses also available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C++

C, C++, Go and Erlang

Server operating systems

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

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL++, extends ANSI SQL to JSON for operational, transactional, and analytic use cases

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

HTTP API

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

Memcached protocol

CLI Client
HTTP REST
Kafka Connector
Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs
Spark Connector
Spring Data

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java
Python

Java

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

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Functions and timers in JavaScript and UDFs in Java, Python, SQL++

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

via the TAP protocol

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Automatic Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

selectable on a per-operation basis

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

TDB Transactions

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Ephemeral buckets

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

Access control via Jena Security

User and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication. Role-base access control.

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