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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon DocumentDB vs. CouchDB vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. UniData,UniVerse

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Adaptive Server infoformer name: Sybase ASE  Xexclude from comparisonUniData,UniVerse  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.The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMSMultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeDocument storeRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionSpatial DBMS infowith Boeing's Spatial Query Server
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score1.91
Rank#131  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score8.30
Rank#47  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score35.09
Rank#25  Overall
#17  Relational DBMS
Score2.85
Rank#98  Overall
#1  Multivalue DBMS
Websitealasql.orgaws.amazon.com/­documentdbcouchdb.apache.orgwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-ase.htmlwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-unidata
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourcesdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablehelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_ASEdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerSAP, SybaseRocket Software
Initial release20142019200519871985
Current release3.3.3, December 202316.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptErlangC and C++C
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyesoptional
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 indexesnoyesyes infovia viewsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nonoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)RESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
Java API infoJPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
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
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
Basic infoU2 Basic
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoView functions in JavaScriptJava and Transact-SQLyes
Triggersyesnoyesyesyes infoU2 Basic
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0horizontal partitioningnone
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)yesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possiblenoyesno
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 possibleACIDACID infoconfigurable
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyes
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.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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