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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. EventStoreDB vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. EventStoreDB vs. Riak KV

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonEventStoreDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  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 ScioreIndustrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeEvent StoreKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score1.19
Rank#173  Overall
#1  Event Stores
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websitealasql.orgaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.eventstore.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdevelopers.eventstore.comwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAmazonEvent Store LimitedOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release2014200720122009
Current release21.2, February 20213.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptErlang
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonono
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
Secondary indexesnoyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIRESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoErlang
Triggersyesnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono infolinks between data sets can be stored
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 applicationno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)yes, using Riak Security

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