DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Amazon DocumentDB vs. RocksDB vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Warp 10

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon DocumentDB vs. RocksDB vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Warp 10

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database service

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	1.91
Rank	#131	Overall
	#24	Document stores

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	35.09
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#344	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

alasql.org

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

rocksdb.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Facebook, Inc.

SAP, Sybase

SenX

Initial release

2014

2019

2013

1987

2015

Current release

9.2.1, May 2024

16.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

hosted

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java and Transact-SQL

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

Atomic single-document operations

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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