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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. BoltDB vs. GridGain vs. SWC-DB vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. BoltDB vs. GridGain vs. SWC-DB vs. Vitess

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryAn embedded key-value store for Go.GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMSScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Wide column storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
Spatial 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
Score1.47
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#72  Relational DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#376  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Score0.82
Rank#209  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orggithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.gridgain.comgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
vitess.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffGridGain Systems, Inc.Alex KashirinThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release20142013200720202013
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.10.5, April 202115.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptGoJava, C++, .NetC++Go
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxDocker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyes
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 indexesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLSQL-like query languageyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptGoC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)noyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersyesnoyes (cache interceptors and events)noyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneyes (replicated cache)Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageyesACIDACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
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.yesnoyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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