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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. BoltDB vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. SQL.JS vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. BoltDB vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. SQL.JS vs. SWC-DB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonCloudflare Workers KV  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryAn embedded key-value store for Go.A global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.Port of SQLite to JavaScriptA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.32
Rank#283  Overall
#40  Key-value stores
Score0.53
Rank#252  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#376  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitealasql.orggithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.cloudflare.com/­developer-platform/­workers-kvsql.js.orggithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldevelopers.cloudflare.com/­kv/­apisql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffCloudflareAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersAlex Kashirin
Initial release20142013201820122020
Current release0.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptGoJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenononoyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nonoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIHTTP REST
Proprietary protocol
JavaScript APIProprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptGoC
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala
JavaScriptC++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononono
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneEventual ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageyesnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonono

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