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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Drizzle vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Drizzle vs. SQL.JS

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonCloudflare Workers KV  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Port of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.39
Rank#274  Overall
#39  Key-value stores
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.cloudflare.com/­developer-platform/­workers-kvsql.js.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldevelopers.cloudflare.com/­kv/­apisql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffCloudflareDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release2014201820082012
Current release7.2.4, September 2012
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++JavaScript
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noyes infowith proprietary extensionsyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIHTTP REST
Proprietary protocol
JDBCJavaScript API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala
C
C++
Java
PHP
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersyesnono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.no
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPno

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