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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Amazon Neptune vs. Memcached vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon Neptune vs. Memcached vs. Transbase

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon Neptune  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryFast, reliable graph database built for the cloudIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Key-value storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score2.20
Rank#119  Overall
#9  Graph DBMS
#5  RDF stores
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgaws.amazon.com/­neptunewww.memcached.orgwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlaws.amazon.com/­neptune/­developer-resourcesgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikiwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAmazonDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release2014201720031987
Current release1.6.25, March 2024Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptCC and C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnononoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nonoyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIOpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin
Proprietary protocolADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-availability zones high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas within a single region. Global database clusters consists of a primary write DB cluster in one region, and up to five secondary read DB clusters in different regions. Each secondary region can have up to 16 reader instances.none infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallitySource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoRelationships in graphsnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDnoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyes infowith encyption-at-restnoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)yes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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