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

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

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  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 DBMSA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Search engineKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMSRelational DBMS
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
Score1.47
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#72  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score2.32
Rank#112  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.gridgain.comgithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
maxdb.sap.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlhugegraph.apache.org/­docsmaxdb.sap.com/­documentation
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAmazonGridGain Systems, Inc.BaiduSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997
Initial release20142012200720181984
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.10.97.9.10.12, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infoLimited community edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJava, C++, .NetJavaC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Unix
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyes
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 DDLnoyes
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
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Groovy
Java
Python
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)asynchronous Gremlin script jobsyes
Triggersyesnoyes (cache interceptors and events)noyes
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 HBasenone
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 HBaseSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)via hugegraph-sparkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes infoedges in graphyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDACIDACID
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.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoauthentication via encrypted signaturesSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsUsers, roles and permissionsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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