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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Amazon Aurora vs. FatDB vs. LokiJS vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon Aurora vs. FatDB vs. LokiJS vs. Yanza

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon Aurora  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryMySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by AmazonA .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.In-memory JavaScript DBMSTime Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Document storeTime Series DBMS
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
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websitealasql.orgaws.amazon.com/­rds/­auroragithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSyanza.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.aws.amazon.com/­AmazonRDS/­latest/­AuroraUserGuide/­CHAP_Aurora.htmltechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAmazonFatCloudYanza
Initial release20142015201220142015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Sourcecommercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC#JavaScript
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedWindowsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnono
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infovia viewsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesno infoVia inetgration in SQL Servernono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
JavaScript APIHTTP 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
C#JavaScriptany language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes infovia applicationsView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersyesyesyes infovia applicationsyesyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationselectable replication factornonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
noneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDnono 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.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsnono

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