DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Datomic vs. Hyprcubd vs. MySQL

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Datomic vs. Hyprcubd vs. MySQL

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Name

Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

Serverless Time Series DBMS

Widely used open source RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.41
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	1.47
Rank	#145	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	1017.80
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.datomic.com

hyprcubd.com (offline)

www.mysql.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.datomic.com

dev.mysql.com/doc

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Cognitect

Hyprcubd, Inc.

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Initial release

2014

2012

1995

Current release

1.0.7180, July 2024

9.0.0, July 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java, Clojure

C and C++

Server operating systems

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

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

time, int, uint, float, string

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

RESTful HTTP API

gRPC (https)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Clojure
Java

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

By using transaction functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Multi-source replication
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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

recommended only for testing and development

yes

User concepts

Access control

token access

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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