DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Ehcache vs. EJDB vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Ehcache vs. EJDB vs. LokiJS

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

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

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store

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Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	4.89
Rank	#67	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Website

alasql.org

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.ehcache.org

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.ehcache.org/documentation

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

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Softmotions

Initial release

2014

2012

2009

2012

2014

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

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

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

server-less

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

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

JCache

in-process shared library

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java

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

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

by using Terracotta Server

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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