DBMS > AlaSQL vs. FatDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Newts vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. FatDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Newts vs. Valentina Server

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

opennms.github.io/newts

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

FatCloud

Microsoft

OpenNMS Group

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2014

2012

2014

1999

Current release

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

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

Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

Via inetgration in SQL Server

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

HTTP REST
Java API

ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

via applications

JavaScript

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

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

Can implement custom security layer via applications

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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