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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Elasticsearch vs. Graph Engine vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Elasticsearch vs. Graph Engine vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerA drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Search engineGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
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
Score128.79
Rank#8  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score0.56
Rank#241  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#34  Key-value stores
Score72.95
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#250  Overall
#39  Document stores
Websitealasql.orgwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.graphengine.ioazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasewww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodb
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqldocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodb
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffElasticMicrosoftMicrosoftPercona
Initial release20142010201020102015
Current release8.6, January 2023V123.4.10-2.10, November 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoGPL Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaScriptJava.NET and CC++C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)All OS with a Java VM.NEThostedLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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 indexesnoyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL-like query languagenoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyesTransact SQLJavaScript
Triggersyesyes infoby using the 'percolation' featurenoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesyes, with always 3 replicas availableSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoES-Hadoop Connectornoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesMemcached and Redis integrationyesyes infovia In-Memory Engine
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles

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