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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. EJDB vs. Faircom EDGE vs. HBase

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environments

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Document store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Wide column store

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Score	0.49
Rank	#259	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	77.57
Rank	#16	Overall
	#2	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	0.30
Rank	#294	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#380	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores
	#157	Relational DBMS

Score	31.25
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Website

alasql.org

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

hbase.apache.org

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.html

hbase.apache.org/book.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Amazon

Softmotions

FairCom Corporation

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Initial release

2014

2012

1979

2008

Current release

V3, October 2020

2.3.4, January 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

Apache version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

ANSI C, C++

Java

Server operating systems

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

hosted

server-less

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

schema-free, schema definition possible

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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.

yes

ANSI SQL queries

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

RESTful HTTP API

in-process shared library

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

when using SQL

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

ACID

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

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)

Fine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

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