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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. EJDB vs. LokiJS vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

DataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform.

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS

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Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	5.80
Rank	#60	Overall
	#4	Wide column stores

Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Website

alasql.org

www.datastax.com/products/datastax-enterprise

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

yanza.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.datastax.com

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

DataStax

Softmotions

Yanza

Initial release

2014

2011

2012

2014

2015

Current release

6.8, April 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

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

Linux
OS X

server-less

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

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQL

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin

with DSE Graph

in-process shared library

JavaScript API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computing

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

consistency level can be individually decided with each write operation

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

Access rights for users can be defined per object

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Specific characteristics

DataStax Enterprise is scale-out data infrastructure for enterprises that need to...
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Competitive advantages

Supporting the following application requirements: Zero downtime - Built on Apache...
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Typical application scenarios

Applications that must be massively and linearly scalable with 100% uptime and able...
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Key customers

Capital One, Cisco, Comcast, eBay, McDonald's, Microsoft, Safeway, Sony, UBS, and...
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Market metrics

Among the Forbes 100 Most Innovative Companies, DataStax is trusted by 5 of the top...
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Licensing and pricing models

Annual subscription
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