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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. BoltDB vs. Rockset vs. SQL.JS vs. Yaacomo

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryAn embedded key-value store for Go.A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBPort of SQLite to JavaScriptOpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orggithub.com/­boltdb/­boltrockset.comsql.js.orgyaacomo.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.rockset.comsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffRocksetAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersQ2WEB GmbH
Initial release20142013201920122009
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptGoC++JavaScript
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)Android
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonodynamic typingyesyes
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.nonono infoingestion from XML files supportednono
Secondary indexesnonoall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIHTTP RESTJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptGoGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersyesnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneAutomatic shardingnonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneyesnoneSource-replica replication
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 integrityyesnonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageyesnoACIDACID
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.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consolenofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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