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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Galaxybase vs. LevelDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. PouchDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Score	2.35
Rank	#111	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Website

alasql.org

galaxybase.com

github.com/google/leveldb

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

pouchdb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

Google

Microsoft

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2014

2017

2011

2014

2012

Current release

Nov 20, November 2021

1.23, February 2021

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C and Java

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

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

Linux

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

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

Data scheme

schema-free

Strong typed schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

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

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Go
Java
Python

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

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

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined procedures and functions

JavaScript

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

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

with automatic compression on writes

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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