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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. GridGain vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Tarantool

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. GridGain vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Tarantool

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonTarantool  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 IgniteOracles in-memory data grid solutionIn-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Search engineKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith Tarantool/GIS extension
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
Score1.92
Rank#130  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score1.72
Rank#144  Overall
#25  Document stores
#25  Key-value stores
#66  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.gridgain.comwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencewww.tarantool.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmldocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencewww.tarantool.io/­en/­doc
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAmazonGridGain Systems, Inc.OracleVK
Initial release20142012200720072008
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.114.1, August 20232.10.0, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJava, C++, .NetJavaC and C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMBSD
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeFlexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesstring, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime
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 indexedyesnoyes
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 DDLnoFull-featured ANSI SQL support
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIHTTP APIHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
Open binary protocol
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C++
Java
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)noLua, C and SQL stored procedures
Triggersyesnoyes (cache interceptors and events)yes infoLive Eventsyes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingShardingSharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infomanaged transparently by AWSyes (replicated cache)yes, with selectable consistency levelAsynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)no
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Casual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition infowhen using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition infowhen using Raft
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDconfigurableACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, cooperative multitasking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes infooptionallyyes, write ahead logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence
User concepts infoAccess controlnoauthentication via encrypted signaturesSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationAccess Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles

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