DBMS > AlaSQL vs. CockroachDB vs. EsgynDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Trino

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. CockroachDB vs. EsgynDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Trino

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

CockroachDB is a distributed database architected for modern cloud applications. It is wire compatible with PostgreSQL and backed by a Key-Value Store, which is either RocksDB or a purpose-built derivative, called Pebble.

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.42
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	4.74
Rank	#67	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Score	0.15
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Score	24.97
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	5.28
Rank	#61	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.cockroachlabs.com

www.esgyn.cn

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

trino.io

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Cockroach Labs

Esgyn

Microsoft

Trino Software Foundation

Initial release

2014

2015

2014

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

Current release

24.1.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++, Java

Java

Server operating systems

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

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

hosted

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

Data scheme

schema-free

dynamic schema

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

yes

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

depending on connected data-source

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

JavaScript

yes, depending on connected data-source

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

all tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFT

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

depending on connected data-source

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

depending on connected data-source

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

depending on connected data-source

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

depending on connected data-source

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

depending on connected data-source

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

SQL standard access control

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