DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. NCache vs. Riak TS

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. NCache vs. Riak TS

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environments

A distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache Kylin

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.09
Rank	#362	Overall
	#53	Key-value stores
	#155	Relational DBMS

Score	0.46
Rank	#266	Overall
	#124	Relational DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

kyligence.io/kyligence-enterprise

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.html

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

FairCom Corporation

Kyligence, Inc.

Alachisoft

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2014

1979

2016

2005

2015

Current release

V3, October 2020

5.3.3, April 2024

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

ANSI C, C++

Java

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

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

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

yes

ANSI SQL queries

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Erlang

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

yes, with selectable consistency level

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

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 user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

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