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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Databricks vs. Hyprcubd vs. IBM Cloudant

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Databricks vs. Hyprcubd vs. IBM Cloudant

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparison
Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
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.Serverless Time Series DBMSDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSDocument store
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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
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Websitealasql.orgwww.databricks.comhyprcubd.com (offline)www.ibm.com/­products/­cloudant
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.databricks.comcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffDatabricksHyprcubd, Inc.IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release201420132010
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaScriptGoErlang
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedhostedhosted
Data schemeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infotime, int, uint, float, stringno
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 SQLSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC (https)RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptPython
R
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions and aggregatesnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
Triggersyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDnono infoatomic operations within a document possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesnoyes infoOptimistic locking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnotoken accessAccess rights for users can be defined per database
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Specific characteristicsSupported database models : In addition to the Document store and Relational DBMS...
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