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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Faircom DB vs. Graph Engine vs. Memcached vs. RavenDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Faircom DB vs. Graph Engine vs. Memcached vs. RavenDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom DB infoformerly c-treeACE  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryNative 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 cachingOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Key-value storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.49
Rank#259  Overall
#40  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score0.24
Rank#311  Overall
#44  Key-value stores
#140  Relational DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score20.74
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score3.01
Rank#101  Overall
#17  Document stores
Websitealasql.orgwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-dbwww.graphengine.iowww.memcached.orgravendb.net
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.htmlwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikiravendb.net/­docs
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffFairCom CorporationMicrosoftDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalHibernating Rhinos
Initial release20141979201020032010
Current releaseV12, November 20201.6.25, March 20245.4, July 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infoRestricted, free version availableOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptANSI C, C++.NET and CCC#
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows infoeasily portable to other OSs
.NETFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,yesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structuresyesnono
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensionsnonoSQL-like query language (RQL)
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC
RESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocol.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.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
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++yesnoyes
Triggersyesyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneFile partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding infoCustomizable business rules for table partitioninghorizontal partitioningnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes, 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 functionallityMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction
Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagetunable from ACID to Eventually ConsistentnonoACID, Cluster-wide transaction available
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageYes, 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 storagenoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for filesyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolAuthorization levels configured per client per database

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