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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Ehcache vs. HarperDB vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	4.89
Rank	#67	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	0.55
Rank	#248	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

alasql.org

www.ehcache.org

www.harperdb.io

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

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.ehcache.org/documentation

docs.harperdb.io/docs

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

HarperDB

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2014

2009

2017

2020

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

3.1, August 2021

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Node.js

C++

Server operating systems

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

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

dynamic schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

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

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like data manipulation statements

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JCache

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

by using Terracotta Server

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

Atomic execution of specific operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

yes, using LMDB

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 and roles

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