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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. GridGain vs. HugeGraph

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. GridGain vs. HugeGraph

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Search engineKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.49
Rank#259  Overall
#40  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score1.87
Rank#140  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score1.53
Rank#155  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#73  Relational DBMS
Score0.15
Rank#339  Overall
#33  Graph DBMS
Websitealasql.orgaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.gridgain.comgithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlhugegraph.apache.org/­docs
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAmazonGridGain Systems, Inc.Baidu
Initial release2014201220072018
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.10.9
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaScriptJava, C++, .NetJava
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Unix
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesnoyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range index
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIHTTP APIHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Groovy
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)asynchronous Gremlin script jobs
Triggersyesnoyes (cache interceptors and events)no
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infomanaged transparently by AWSyes (replicated cache)yes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)via hugegraph-spark
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes infoedges in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoauthentication via encrypted signaturesSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsUsers, roles and permissions

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