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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Databricks vs. Ehcache vs. RethinkDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryThe Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses to provide a unified view onto structured and unstructured data. It is based on Apache Spark.A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score81.08
Rank#15  Overall
#2  Document stores
#10  Relational DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Websitealasql.orgwww.databricks.comwww.ehcache.orgrethinkdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.databricks.comwww.ehcache.org/­documentationrethinkdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffDatabricksTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017
Initial release2014201320092009
Current release3.10.0, March 20222.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometry
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.with Databricks SQLnono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JCache
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptPython
R
Scala
JavaC infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions and aggregatesno
Triggersyesyes infoCache Event ListenersClient-side triggers through changefeeds
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerSharding inforange based
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesyes infoby using Terracotta ServerSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceAtomic single-document operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCC based
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoyes infousers and table-level permissions
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Specific characteristicsSupported database models : In addition to the Document store and Relational DBMS...
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