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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Elasticsearch vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Lovefield vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Elasticsearch vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Lovefield vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  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 metricDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptA drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Search engineDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score132.83
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score0.60
Rank#246  Overall
#39  Document stores
Websitealasql.orgwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldwww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodb
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mddocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodb
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffElasticIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014GooglePercona
Initial release20142010201020142015
Current release8.6, January 20232.1.12, February 20173.4.10-2.10, November 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoElastic LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaErlangJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)All OS with a Java VMhostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIproprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
JavaScriptActionscript
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 proceduresnoyesView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnoJavaScript
Triggersyesyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyesUsing read-only observersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoES-Hadoop Connectoryesnoyes
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, allEventual 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-storagenono infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesMemcached and Redis integrationnoyes infousing MemoryDByes infovia In-Memory Engine
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenoAccess rights for users and roles

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