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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Interbase vs. RocksDB vs. Splice Machine

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Interbase vs. RocksDB vs. Splice Machine

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon DynamoDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryHosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMSKey-value storeRelational 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
Score74.45
Rank#17  Overall
#3  Document stores
#2  Key-value stores
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score3.41
Rank#86  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Score0.54
Rank#252  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgaws.amazon.com/­dynamodbwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbaserocksdb.orgsplicemachine.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.aws.amazon.com/­dynamodbdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasegithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikisplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAmazonEmbarcaderoFacebook, Inc.Splice Machine
Initial release20142012198420132014
Current releaseInterBase 2020, December 20199.2.1, May 20243.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infofree tier for a limited amount of database operationscommercialOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptCC++Java
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnoyes
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.nono infoexport as XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
C++ API
Java API
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languagenoyes infoJava
Triggersyesyes infoby integration with AWS Lambdayesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnonehorizontal partitioningShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesInterbase Change ViewsyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)nonoYes, via Full Spark Integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACID infoACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and regionACIDyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
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.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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