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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. BoltDB vs. CouchDB vs. SAP HANA vs. Valentina Server

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

A native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.

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

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.42
Rank	#264	Overall
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	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	0.70
Rank	#225	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	7.46
Rank	#51	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#313	Overall
	#140	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

github.com/boltdb/bolt

couchdb.apache.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

help.sap.com/hana

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer

SAP

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2014

2013

2005

2010

1999

Current release

3.3.3, December 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

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

Erlang

Server operating systems

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

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

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

yes

atomic operations within a single document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

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

Access rights for users can be defined per database

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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