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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. BigObject vs. SiriDB vs. Speedb

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. BigObject vs. SiriDB vs. Speedb

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpeedb  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 queriesOpen Source Time Series DBMSAn embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDB
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Search engineRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedTime Series 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
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#378  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Score0.26
Rank#310  Overall
#45  Key-value stores
Websitealasql.orgaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchbigobject.iosiridb.comwww.speedb.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.bigobject.iodocs.siridb.com
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAmazonBigObject, Inc.CesbitSpeedb
Initial release20142012201520172020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptCC++
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)
LinuxLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes infoNumeric datano
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIHTTP APIfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoLuanono
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednoneShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infomanaged transparently by AWSnoneyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenone
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-storagenononoyes
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.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoauthentication via encrypted signaturesnosimple rights management via user accountsno
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AlaSQLAmazon CloudSearchBigObjectSiriDBSpeedb
Specific characteristicsSpeedb is an embedded key-value storage engine for versatile use cases. It was designed...
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Competitive advantagesSpeedb Open-source rebases on RocksDB's latest versions, with enhanced capabilities...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source - Speedb OSS is released under an Apache license and can be found on...
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