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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Coveo vs. GBase vs. RocksDB vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

AI-powered hosted search, recommendation and personalization platform providing tools for both low-code and full-code development

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	2.28
Rank	#114	Overall
	#11	Search engines

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.coveo.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Coveo

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Facebook, Inc.

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2014

2012

2004

2013

2009

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C, Java, Python

C++

Server operating systems

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

hosted

Linux

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

hybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configuration

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

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

yes

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

granular access controls, API key management, content filters

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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