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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Ehcache vs. Hypertable vs. Qdrant vs. RocksDB

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

A high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

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

Score	1.16
Rank	#175	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

alasql.org

www.ehcache.org

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.ehcache.org/documentation

qdrant.tech/documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Hypertable Inc.

Qdrant

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2014

2009

2021

2013

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

0.9.8.11, March 2016

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C++

Rust

C++

Server operating systems

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

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean

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

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

SQL

Support of SQL

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

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JCache

C++ API
Thrift

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

by using Terracotta Server

selectable replication factor on file system level

Collection-level replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency, tunable 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

yes

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Key-based authentication

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