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

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonDolt  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudA MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schemaA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Search engineRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument 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
Score1.02
Rank#191  Overall
#89  Relational DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Websitealasql.orgaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgithub.com/­dolthub/­dolt
www.dolthub.com
www.ehcache.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.dolthub.comwww.ehcache.org/­documentation
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAmazonDoltHub IncTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AG
Initial release2014201220182009
Current release3.10.0, March 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptGoJava
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinux
macOS
Windows
All OS with a Java VM
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
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.nonono
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.noyesno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIHTTP APICLI Client
HTTP REST
JCache
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infocurrently in alpha releaseno
Triggersyesnoyesyes infoCache Event Listeners
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednoneSharding infoby using Terracotta Server
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infomanaged transparently by AWSA database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.yes infoby using Terracotta Server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
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.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoauthentication via encrypted signaturesOnly one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startupno

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