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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Altibase vs. etcd vs. Sphinx vs. Sqrrl

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Altibase vs. etcd vs. Sphinx vs. Sqrrl

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonetcd  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSqrrl  Xexclude from comparison
Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSA distributed reliable key-value storeOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesAdaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value storeSearch engineDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score7.03
Rank#54  Overall
#5  Key-value stores
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitealasql.orgaltibase.cometcd.io
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd
sphinxsearch.comsqrrl.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsetcd.io/­docs
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd/­tree/­master/­Documentation
sphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAltibaseSphinx Technologies Inc.Amazon infooriginally Sqrrl Data, Inc.
Initial release2014199920012012
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20233.4, August 20193.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++GoC++Java
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
HP-UX
Linux
FreeBSD
Linux
Windows infoexperimental
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnonoyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.ANSI SQL-92noSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
gRPC
JSON over HTTP
Proprietary protocolAccumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C++
Java
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Actionscript
C infousing GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnostored procedures and stored functionsnonono
Triggersyesyesyes, watching key changesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding infomaking use of Hadoop
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.noneselectable replication factor infomaking use of Hadoop
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoDocument store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDnonoAtomic updates per row, document, or graph entity
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnonoCell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

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