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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. EventStoreDB vs. KeyDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonEventStoreDB  Xexclude from comparisonKeyDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryIndustrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.An ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocols
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Event StoreKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.69
Rank#245  Overall
#36  Document stores
#113  Relational DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#185  Overall
#1  Event Stores
Score0.73
Rank#242  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Websitealasql.orgwww.eventstore.comgithub.com/­JohnSully/­KeyDB
keydb.dev
Technical documentationgithub.com/­agershun/­alasqldevelopers.eventstore.comdocs.keydb.dev
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffEvent Store LimitedEQ Alpha Technology Ltd.
Initial release201420122019
Current release21.2, February 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen SourceOpen Source infoBSD-3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenopartial infoSupported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes
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.nono
Secondary indexesnoyes infoby using the Redis Search module
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.no
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization Protoco
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLua
Triggersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageOptimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyes infoConfigurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple password-based access control and ACL

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