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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. BigObject vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. OpenSearch vs. Sequoiadb

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonOpenSearch  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerA distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache LuceneNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSSearch engineDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score76.78
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score16.03
Rank#37  Overall
#4  Search engines
Score0.50
Rank#258  Overall
#41  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgbigobject.ioazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasegithub.com/­opensearch-project
opensearch.org
www.sequoiadb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.bigobject.iodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqlopensearch.org/­docs/­latestwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffBigObject, Inc.MicrosoftAmazon Web ServicesSequoiadb Ltd.
Initial release20142015201020212013
Current releaseV122.5.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++JavaC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
hostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regex
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby infoElasticsearch client
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuaTransact SQLyesJavaScript
Triggersyesnoyesyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneyes, with always 3 replicas availableyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDnoDocument is locked during a transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes
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.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access control
More information provided by the system vendor
AlaSQLBigObjectMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL AzureOpenSearchSequoiadb
Specific characteristicsOpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Competitive advantagesDistributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenariosThe OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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Licensing and pricing modelsThe OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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