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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Ehcache vs. HyperSQL vs. Solr vs. TerminusDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache LuceneScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMSSearch engineGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score3.23
Rank#93  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
Score41.02
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.ehcache.orghsqldb.orgsolr.apache.orgterminusdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.ehcache.org/­documentationhsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmlsolr.apache.org/­resources.htmlterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGApache Software FoundationDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20142009200120062018
Current release3.10.0, March 20222.7.2, June 20239.6.1, May 202411.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaJavaJavaProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)All OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesAll OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fieldsyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typingyes
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noyesSolr Parallel SQL InterfaceSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJCacheHTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJavaAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoJava, SQLJava pluginsyes
Triggersyesyes infoCache Event Listenersyesyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoby using Terracotta ServernoneShardingGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoby using Terracotta ServernoneyesJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduceno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnoyes
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 resourceACIDoptimistic lockingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesRole-based access control

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