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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Geode vs. Greenplum vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Geode vs. Greenplum vs. TerarkDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesAnalytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Search engineKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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
Score1.86
Rank#134  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score8.08
Rank#48  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Websitealasql.orgaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgeode.apache.orggreenplum.orggithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgeode.apache.org/­docsdocs.greenplum.orgbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAmazonOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.Pivotal Software Inc.ByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release20142012200220052016
Current release1.1, February 20177.0.0, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesno
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.nonoyes infosince Version 4.2no
Secondary indexesnoyes infoall search fields are automatically indexednoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noSQL-like query language (OQL)yesno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIHTTP APIJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
C
Java
Perl
Python
R
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsyesno
Triggersyesnoyes infoCache Event Listenersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infomanaged transparently by AWSMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoyes, on a single nodeACIDno
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.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoauthentication via encrypted signaturesAccess rights per client and object definablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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