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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Elasticsearch vs. GridGain vs. Kinetica

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Elasticsearch vs. GridGain vs. Kinetica

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  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 metricGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Search engineKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score135.35
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score1.47
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#72  Relational DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.gridgain.comwww.kinetica.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmldocs.kinetica.com
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffElasticGridGain Systems, Inc.Kinetica
Initial release2014201020072012
Current release8.6, January 2023GridGain 8.5.17.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoElastic Licensecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaJava, C++, .NetC, C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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.nonoyesno
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 languageANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)user defined functions
Triggersyesyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyes (cache interceptors and events)yes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesyes (replicated cache)Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoES-Hadoop Connectoryes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)no
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 ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesMemcached and Redis integrationyesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAM
User concepts infoAccess controlnoSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsAccess rights for users and roles on table level

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