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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. BoltDB vs. Rockset vs. SQream DB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudAn embedded key-value store for Go.A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Search engineKey-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
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
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.70
Rank#227  Overall
#104  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgithub.com/­boltdb/­boltrockset.comsqream.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.rockset.comdocs.sqream.com
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAmazonRocksetSQream Technologies
Initial release20142012201320192017
Current release2022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaScriptGoC++C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnodynamic typingyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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.nonono infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesnoyes infoall search fields are automatically indexednoall fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nonoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIHTTP APIHTTP REST.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptGoGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononouser defined functions in Python
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednoneAutomatic shardinghorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infomanaged transparently by AWSnoneyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoyesnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoauthentication via encrypted signaturesnoAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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