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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. BigObject vs. OpenQM vs. TDSQL for MySQL

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. BigObject vs. OpenQM vs. TDSQL for MySQL

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonTDSQL for MySQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSA high-performance distributed database management system with features such as automatic sharding, intelligent operation and maintenance, elastic scalability without downtime, and enterprise-grade security. It is highly compatible with MySQL.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Search engineRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#298  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.85
Rank#205  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchbigobject.iowww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmwww.tencentcloud.com/­products/­dcdb
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.bigobject.iowww.tencentcloud.com/­document/­product/­1042
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAmazonBigObject, Inc.Rocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsTencent
Initial release20142012201519932013
Current release3.4-12
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonoyes
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Implementation languageJavaScript
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes infowith some exceptionsyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIHTTP APIfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoLuayesyes
Triggersyesnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednoneyesAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infomanaged transparently by AWSnoneyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes
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 controlnoauthentication via encrypted signaturesnoAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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