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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Amazon DocumentDB vs. CouchDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. MaxDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon DocumentDB vs. CouchDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. MaxDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeDocument storeDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch 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
Score1.91
Rank#132  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score9.30
Rank#45  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score2.32
Rank#112  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgaws.amazon.com/­documentdbcouchdb.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantmaxdb.sap.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourcesdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantmaxdb.sap.com/­documentation
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997
Initial release20142019200520101984
Current release3.3.3, December 20237.9.10.12, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialcommercial infoLimited community edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaScriptErlangErlangC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnonoyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infovia viewsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nononoyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)RESTful HTTP/JSON APIRESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoView functions in JavaScriptView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes
Triggersyesnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0Shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)yesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possiblenonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageAtomic single-document operationsno infoatomic operations within a single document possibleno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
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.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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