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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Couchbase vs. EJDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

A global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.

A distributed document store with integrated cache, a powerful search engine, in-built operational and analytical capabilities, and an embedded mobile database

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store

Secondary database models

Key-value store

originating from the former Membase product and supporting the Memcached protocol
Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	0.39
Rank	#274	Overall
	#39	Key-value stores

Score	16.59
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Website

alasql.org

www.cloudflare.com/developer-platform/workers-kv

www.couchbase.com

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

developers.cloudflare.com/kv/api

docs.couchbase.com

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Cloudflare

Couchbase, Inc.

Softmotions

Initial release

2014

2018

2011

2012

Current release

Server: 7.2, June 2023; Mobile: 3.1, March 2022; Couchbase Capella (DBaaS), June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

Business Source License (BSL 1.1); Commercial licenses also available

Open Source

GPLv2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C, C++, Go and Erlang

Server operating systems

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

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL++, extends ANSI SQL to JSON for operational, transactional, and analytic use cases

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol

CLI Client
HTTP REST
Kafka Connector
Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs
Spark Connector
Spring Data

in-process shared library

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Functions and timers in JavaScript and UDFs in Java, Python, SQL++

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

selectable on a per-operation basis

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

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

Ephemeral buckets

User concepts

Access control

User and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication. Role-base access control.

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