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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. etcd vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Manticore Search vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. etcd vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Manticore Search vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonetcd  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA distributed reliable key-value storeDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeDocument storeSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar LibraryDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score7.25
Rank#54  Overall
#5  Key-value stores
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score77.99
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgetcd.io
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd
www.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantmanticoresearch.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­database
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqletcd.io/­docs
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd/­tree/­master/­Documentation
cloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantmanual.manticoresearch.comdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sql
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Manticore SoftwareMicrosoft
Initial release2014201020172010
Current release3.4, August 20196.0, February 2023V12
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaScriptGoErlangC++C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
Linux
Windows infoexperimental
hostedFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeFixed schemayes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenononoInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyes
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.nononoCan index from XMLyes
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nonoSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIgRPC
JSON over HTTP
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIBinary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptuser defined functionsTransact SQL
Triggersyesyes, watching key changesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
Synchronous replication based on Galera libraryyes, with always 3 replicas available
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenono infoatomic operations within a document possibleyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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