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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. BaseX vs. Ehcache

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. BaseX vs. Ehcache

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Search engineNative XML DBMSKey-value 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
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Websitealasql.orgaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchbasex.orgwww.ehcache.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.basex.orgwww.ehcache.org/­documentation
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAmazonBaseX GmbHTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AG
Initial release2014201220072009
Current release10.7, August 20233.10.0, March 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaJava
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VM
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesno infoXQuery supports typesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesnoyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nonono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIHTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
JCache
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesno
Triggersyesnoyes infovia eventsyes infoCache Event Listeners
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednoneSharding infoby using Terracotta Server
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infomanaged transparently by AWSnoneyes infoby using Terracotta Server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenomultiple readers, single writeryes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resource
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approach
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoauthentication via encrypted signaturesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsno

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