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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Amazon Aurora vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. OpenEdge vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon Aurora vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. OpenEdge vs. STSdb

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon Aurora  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryMySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by AmazonHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreApplication development environment with integrated database management systemKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument 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
Score7.57
Rank#51  Overall
#32  Relational DBMS
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score3.45
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitealasql.orgaws.amazon.com/­rds/­auroraaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.progress.com/­openedgegithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.aws.amazon.com/­AmazonRDS/­latest/­AuroraUserGuide/­CHAP_Aurora.htmldocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latest
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAmazonAmazonProgress Software CorporationSTS Soft SC
Initial release20142015200719842011
Current releaseOpenEdge 12.2, March 20204.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC#
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedhostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.noyesyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesnoyes infoclose to SQL 92no
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoyesno
Triggersyesyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationhorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationyesSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDno infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes
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-standardAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Users and groupsno

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