DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. FeatureBase vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. FeatureBase vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Postgres-XL

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

Real-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
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	0.31
Rank	#292	Overall
	#135	Relational DBMS

Score	0.60
Rank	#246	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.featurebase.com

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

www.postgres-xl.org

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.featurebase.com

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Amazon

Molecula and Pilosa Open Source Contributors

Percona

Initial release

2014

2012

2017

2015

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

Current release

2022, May 2022

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

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

hosted

Linux
macOS

Linux

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL queries

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC

proprietary protocol using JSON

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
Python

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

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

MVCC

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

yes, using Linux fsync

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

via In-Memory Engine

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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