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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Ehcache vs. Heroic vs. LokiJS vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Ehcache vs. Heroic vs. LokiJS vs. Vitess

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchIn-memory JavaScript DBMSScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeTime Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.42
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score4.79
Rank#66  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score0.13
Rank#335  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.44
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
Score0.86
Rank#202  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.ehcache.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroicgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSvitess.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.ehcache.org/­documentationspotify.github.io/­heroictechfort.github.io/­LokiJSvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGSpotifyThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release20142009201420142013
Current release3.10.0, March 202215.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaJavaJavaScriptGo
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)All OS with a Java VMserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnoyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnonoyes infovia Elasticsearchyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nononoyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJCacheHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJavaJavaScriptAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoView functions in JavaScriptyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersyesyes infoCache Event Listenersnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoby using Terracotta ServeryesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
noneEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourcenono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnononoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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