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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Hypertable vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Hypertable vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Rockset

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
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 ScioreAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopWidely used in-process key-value storeA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeWide column storeKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Document store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score2.21
Rank#117  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Websitealasql.orgaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlrockset.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmldocs.rockset.com
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAmazonHypertable Inc.Oracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleRockset
Initial release20142007200919942019
Current release0.9.8.11, March 201618.1.40, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infocommercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonoyes
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonononodynamic typing
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.noyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML editionno infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesnoyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nonoyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availableRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIRESTful HTTP APIC++ API
Thrift
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononono
Triggersyesnonoyes infoonly for the SQL APIno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingnoneAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesselectable replication factor on file system levelSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
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 applicationnoACIDno
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.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)nonoAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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