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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Apache Impala vs. Faircom DB vs. Graph Engine vs. Memcached

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache Impala vs. Faircom DB vs. Graph Engine vs. Memcached

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom DB infoformerly c-treeACE  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryAnalytic DBMS for HadoopNative high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score13.77
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#318  Overall
#48  Key-value stores
#141  Relational DBMS
Score0.61
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Websitealasql.orgimpala.apache.orgwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-dbwww.graphengine.iowww.memcached.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmldocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.htmlwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wiki
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaFairCom CorporationMicrosoftDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal
Initial release20142013197920102003
Current release4.1.0, June 2022V12, November 20201.6.25, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infoRestricted, free version availableOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoBSD license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++ANSI C, C++.NET and CC
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows infoeasily portable to other OSs
.NETFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,yesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structuresyesno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensionsnono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC
RESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++yesno
Triggersyesnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingFile partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding infoCustomizable business rules for table partitioninghorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factoryes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).none infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenotunable from ACID to Eventually Consistentnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesYes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memoryoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageno
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for filesyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

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