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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Coveo vs. FoundationDB vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Coveo vs. FoundationDB vs. STSdb

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonCoveo  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryAI-powered hosted search, recommendation and personalization platform providing tools for both low-code and full-code developmentOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.Key-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Search engineDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Key-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#114  Overall
#11  Search engines
Score1.03
Rank#190  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#89  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websitealasql.orgwww.coveo.comgithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.coveo.comapple.github.io/­foundationdb
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffCoveoFoundationDBSTS Soft SC
Initial release2014201220132011
Current release6.2.28, November 20204.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++C#
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Windows
Data schemeschema-freehybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configurationschema-free infosome layers support schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesno infosome layers support typingyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.nono
Secondary indexesnoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nosupported in specific SQL layer onlyno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIRESTful HTTP API.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoin SQL-layer onlyno
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyesShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyLinearizable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesin SQL-layer onlyno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageyesACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlnogranular access controls, API key management, content filtersnono

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