DBMS > AlaSQL vs. EJDB vs. Faircom EDGE vs. OpenSearch vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. EJDB vs. Faircom EDGE vs. OpenSearch vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environments

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Search engine

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.02
Rank	#368	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

alasql.org

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

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

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.html

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Softmotions

FairCom Corporation

Amazon Web Services

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2014

2012

1979

2021

2020

Current release

V3, October 2020

2.5.0, January 2023

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

ANSI C, C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

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

server-less

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

ANSI SQL queries

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

in-process shared library

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

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

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

when using SQL

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

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

Fine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.

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