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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Memgraph 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

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

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

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
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	#118	Relational DBMS

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

Score	3.19
Rank	#94	Overall
	#8	Graph 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

memgraph.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

memgraph.com/docs

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

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

Social network pages

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Amazon

Memgraph Ltd

Microsoft

OpenNMS Group

Initial release

2014

2012

2017

2010

2014

Current release

V12

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition 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 and C++

C++

Java

Server operating systems

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

hosted

Linux

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free and schema-optional

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.

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

RESTful HTTP API

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
Java API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

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)

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

relationships in graphs

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

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

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)

Users, roles and permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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