DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. DolphinDB vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Newts

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. DolphinDB vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Newts

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Hosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	74.45
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	4.03
Rank	#78	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	76.78
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

alasql.org

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.dolphindb.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

opennms.github.io/newts

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.dolphindb.cn/en/help200/index.html

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Amazon

DolphinDB, Inc

Microsoft

OpenNMS Group

Initial release

2014

2012

2018

2010

2014

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

V12

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

free community version available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Java

Server operating systems

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

hosted

Linux
Windows

hosted

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
Java API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

yes, with always 3 replicas available

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

ACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and region

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 can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Administrators, Users, Groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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