DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. SAP HANA vs. SQL.JS vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. SAP HANA vs. SQL.JS vs. TerarkDB

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Name

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

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

alasql.org

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

sql.js.org

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

help.sap.com/hana

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Atos Convergence Creators

SAP

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2014

2016

2010

2012

2016

Current release

1703

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

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

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

LDAP

JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

All languages with LDAP bindings

JavaScript

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

cell division

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

LDAP bind authentication

yes

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