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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. Realm vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. Realm vs. STSdb

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreScalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualizationA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document storeKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.49
Rank#259  Overall
#40  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score1.88
Rank#139  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.27
Rank#302  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score7.71
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Websitealasql.orgaws.amazon.com/­simpledbcambridgesemantics.com/­anzographrealm.iogithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmrealm.io/­docs
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAmazonCambridge SemanticsRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019STS Soft SC
Initial release20142007201820142011
Current release2.3, January 20214.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercialcommercial infofree trial version availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC#
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinuxAndroid
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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 indexesnoyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallynoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noSPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.nono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIRESTful HTTP APIApache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++
Java
Python
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functions and aggregatesno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryno
Triggersyesnonoyes infoChange Listenersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationAutomatic shardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesMulti-source replication in MPP-Clusternonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoKerberos/HDFS data loadingnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate Consistency in MPP-ClusterImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono infonot needed in graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageno infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
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.yesyesyes infoIn-Memory realm
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users and rolesyesno

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