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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon DocumentDB vs. Graphite vs. Heroic vs. Hive

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchdata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational 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
Score1.91
Rank#131  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgaws.amazon.com/­documentdbgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgithub.com/­spotify/­heroichive.apache.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourcesgraphite.readthedocs.iospotify.github.io/­heroiccwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Home
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffChris DavisSpotifyApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by Facebook
Initial release20142019200620142012
Current release3.1.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptPythonJavaJava
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinux
Unix
All OS with a Java VM
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesNumeric data onlyyesyes
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 indexesnoyesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nononoSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)HTTP API
Sockets
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduce
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasnoneyesselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)nonoyes infoquery execution via MapReduce
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possiblenonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageAtomic single-document operationsnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyes
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 rolesnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles

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