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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. BigObject vs. Ehcache vs. Hypertable vs. RocksDB

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Key-value store

Wide column store

Key-value store

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

Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	4.89
Rank	#67	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.bigobject.io

www.ehcache.org/documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

BigObject, Inc.

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Hypertable Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2014

2015

2009

2013

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

0.9.8.11, March 2016

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JCache

C++ API
Thrift

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

by using Terracotta Server

selectable replication factor on file system level

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

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

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