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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. atoti vs. BigchainDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. atoti vs. BigchainDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonatoti  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudAn in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Search engineObject oriented DBMSDocument 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
Score0.61
Rank#243  Overall
#10  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Websitealasql.orgaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchatoti.iowww.bigchaindb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.atoti.iobigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latest
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAmazonActiveViam
Initial release201420122016
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercialcommercial infofree versions availableOpen Source infoAGPL v3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaPython
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesno
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 indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noMultidimensional Expressions (MDX)no
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIHTTP APICLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoPython
Triggersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredSharding, horizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infomanaged transparently by AWSselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB
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 signaturesyes

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