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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Amazon Aurora vs. Netezza vs. PouchDB vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon Aurora vs. Netezza vs. PouchDB vs. Snowflake

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon Aurora  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryMySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by AmazonData warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score7.91
Rank#50  Overall
#32  Relational DBMS
Score9.06
Rank#46  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score121.33
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgaws.amazon.com/­rds/­aurorawww.ibm.com/­products/­netezzapouchdb.comwww.snowflake.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.aws.amazon.com/­AmazonRDS/­latest/­AuroraUserGuide/­CHAP_Aurora.htmlpouchdb.com/­guidesdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAmazonIBMApache Software FoundationSnowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release20142015200020122014
Current release7.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonoyes
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaScript
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinux infoincluded in applianceserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnoyes
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.noyesnoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
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
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
JavaScriptJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyesView functions in JavaScriptuser defined functions
Triggersyesyesnoyesno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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