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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. STSdb vs. YDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonDatastax Enterprise  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonYDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryDataStax 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.Key-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodA distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Wide column storeKey-value storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score5.80
Rank#60  Overall
#4  Wide column stores
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Score0.35
Rank#278  Overall
#43  Document stores
#127  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.datastax.com/­products/­datastax-enterprisegithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4github.com/­ydb-platform/­ydb
ydb.tech
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.datastax.comydb.tech/­en/­docs
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffDataStaxSTS Soft SCYandex
Initial release2014201120112019
Current release6.8, April 20204.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaC#
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
WindowsLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQLnoSQL-like query language (YQL)
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIProprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin infowith DSE Graph
.NET Client APIRESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infono "single point of failure"noneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computingnoneActive-passive shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency infoconsistency level can be individually decided with each write operation
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
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.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per objectnoAccess rights defined for Yandex Cloud users
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AlaSQLDatastax EnterpriseSTSdbYDB
Specific characteristicsDataStax Enterprise is scale-out data infrastructure for enterprises that need to...
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Competitive advantagesSupporting the following application requirements: Zero downtime - Built on Apache...
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Typical application scenariosApplications that must be massively and linearly scalable with 100% uptime and able...
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Key customersCapital One, Cisco, Comcast, eBay, McDonald's, Microsoft, Safeway, Sony, UBS, and...
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Market metricsAmong the Forbes 100 Most Innovative Companies, DataStax is trusted by 5 of the top...
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Licensing and pricing modelsAnnual subscription
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