DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB

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Name	AlaSQL  Xexclude from comparison	Atos Standard Common Repository  Xexclude from comparison	IBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparison	JaguarDB  Xexclude from comparison
		This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
Description	JavaScript DBMS library	Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks	Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB	Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications
Primary database model	Document store Relational DBMS	Document store Key-value store	Document store	Key-value store Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.51 Rank #256   Overall #40   Document stores #118   Relational DBMS		Score 2.75 Rank #104   Overall #19   Document stores	Score 0.06 Rank #381   Overall #59   Key-value stores #14   Vector DBMS
Website	alasql.org	atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository	www.ibm.com/­products/­cloudant	www.jaguardb.com
Technical documentation	github.com/­AlaSQL/­alasql		cloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant	www.jaguardb.com/­support.html
Developer	Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff	Atos Convergence Creators	IBM, Apache Software Foundation IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014	DataJaguar, Inc.
Initial release	2014	2016	2010	2015
Current release		1703		3.3 July 2023
License Commercial or Open Source	Open Source MIT-License	commercial	commercial	Open Source GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	yes	no
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Implementation language	JavaScript	Java	Erlang	C++ the server part. Clients available in other languages
Server operating systems	server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)	Linux	hosted	Linux
Data scheme	schema-free	Schema and schema-less with LDAP views	schema-free	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	no	optional	no	yes
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.	no	yes	no	no
Secondary indexes	no	yes	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.	no	no	A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented but no views, foreign keys, triggers
APIs and other access methods	JavaScript API	LDAP	RESTful HTTP/JSON API	JDBC ODBC
Supported programming languages	JavaScript	All languages with LDAP bindings	C# Java JavaScript Objective-C PHP Ruby	C C++ Go Java JavaScript (Node.js) PHP Python Ruby Scala
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	no	View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript	no
Triggers	yes	yes	yes	no
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	none	Sharding cell division	Sharding	Sharding
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	none	yes	Multi-source replication Source-replica replication	Multi-source replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no		yes	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	none	Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration	Eventual Consistency	Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes	no	no	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	yes only for local storage and DOM-storage	Atomic execution of specific operations	no atomic operations within a document possible	no
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data		yes	yes Optimistic locking	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	yes	yes	no	no
User concepts Access control	no	LDAP bind authentication	Access rights for users can be defined per database	rights management via user accounts
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