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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. jBASE vs. PlanetScale vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. jBASE vs. PlanetScale vs. SwayDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Search engineMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial 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
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#151  Overall
#70  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitealasql.orgaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbaseplanetscale.comswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9planetscale.com/­docs
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAmazonRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)PlanetScaleSimer Plaha
Initial release20142012199120202018
Current release5.7
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaScriptGoScala
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedAIX
Linux
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesoptionalyesno
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 indexedyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICyes infowith proprietary extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesyes infoproprietary syntaxno
Triggersyesnoyesyesno
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 AWSyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDACID at shard levelAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes
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.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoauthentication via encrypted signaturesAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesno

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