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

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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

Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.

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

Document store

Key-value store

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Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
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	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	2.28
Rank	#114	Overall
	#11	Search engines

Score	0.55
Rank	#248	Overall
	#38	Document stores

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

Website

alasql.org

www.coveo.com

www.harperdb.io

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.coveo.com

docs.harperdb.io/docs

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Coveo

HarperDB

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2014

2012

2017

2011

Current release

3.1, August 2021

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Node.js

Server operating systems

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

hosted

Linux
OS X

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

dynamic schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

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.

SQL-like data manipulation statements

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

none

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

yes, using LMDB

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 rights for users and roles

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