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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Infobright vs. Quasardb

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Infobright vs. Quasardb

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesHigh performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Search engineEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series 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
Score0.27
Rank#309  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#192  Overall
#90  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitealasql.orgaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storeignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbquasar.ai
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storedoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAmazonIBMIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.quasardb
Initial release20142012201720052009
Current release2.03.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercialcommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC and C++CC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinux
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes infointeger and binary
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyes infoall search fields are automatically indexednono infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIHTTP APIADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesnono
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingnoneSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infomanaged transparently by AWSActive-active shard replicationSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesNo - written data is immutableyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlnoauthentication via encrypted signaturesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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