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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Coveo vs. Infobright vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Coveo vs. Infobright vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SpatiaLite

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonCoveo  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryAI-powered hosted search, recommendation and personalization platform providing tools for both low-code and full-code developmentHigh performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Search engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#114  Overall
#11  Search engines
Score0.96
Rank#194  Overall
#91  Relational DBMS
Score4.25
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score1.60
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.coveo.comignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.coveo.comhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywherewww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffCoveoIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.SAP infoformerly SybaseAlessandro Furieri
Initial release20142012200519922008
Current release17, July 20155.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercialcommercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016commercialOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptCC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinux
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less
Data schemeschema-freehybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configurationyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesno infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlno
Triggersyesyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyesnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageyesACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnogranular access controls, API key management, content filtersfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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