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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Search engine

Wide column store

Key-value store

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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	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

alasql.org

www.coveo.com

hbase.apache.org

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.coveo.com

hbase.apache.org/book.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Coveo

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2014

2012

2008

2011

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

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

hosted

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

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

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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.

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Multi-source 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

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual 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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

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

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

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