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

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudThe Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses to provide a unified view onto structured and unstructured data. It is based on Apache Spark.A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Search engineDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score81.08
Rank#15  Overall
#2  Document stores
#10  Relational DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Websitealasql.orgaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.databricks.comwww.ehcache.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.databricks.comwww.ehcache.org/­documentation
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAmazonDatabricksTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AG
Initial release2014201220132009
Current release3.10.0, March 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesno
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJava
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedhostedAll OS with a Java VM
Data schemeschema-freeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes
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.noyesno
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.nowith Databricks SQLno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JCache
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptPython
R
Scala
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functions and aggregatesno
Triggersyesnoyes infoCache Event Listeners
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredSharding infoby using Terracotta Server
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infomanaged transparently by AWSyesyes infoby using Terracotta Server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDyes 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.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoauthentication via encrypted signaturesno
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AlaSQLAmazon CloudSearchDatabricksEhcache
Specific characteristicsSupported database models : In addition to the Document store and Relational DBMS...
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