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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Coveo vs. Infobright vs. Sequoiadb

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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

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Score	2.28
Rank	#114	Overall
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Score	0.96
Rank	#194	Overall
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Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.coveo.com

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.coveo.com

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Coveo

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2014

2012

2005

2013

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

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

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

none

Sharding

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

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

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

simple password-based access control

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