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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. EsgynDB vs. Memcached vs. PieCloudDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	18.08
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	0.32
Rank	#289	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Esgyn

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

OpenPie

Initial release

2014

2015

2003

Current release

1.6.27, May 2024

2.1, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++, Java

Server operating systems

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

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

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

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

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