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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Ehcache vs. searchxml vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.42
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	4.79
Rank	#66	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Website

alasql.org

www.ehcache.org

www.searchxml.net/category/products

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.ehcache.org/documentation

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

informationpartners gmbh

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2014

2009

2015

2014

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

1.0

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

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

All OS with a Java VM

Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JCache

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

on the application server

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

by using Terracotta Server

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

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

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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