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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Geode vs. IBM Cloudant vs. OrigoDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Geode vs. IBM Cloudant vs. OrigoDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA fully ACID in-memory object graph database
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeDocument storeDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score1.86
Rank#134  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#380  Overall
#50  Document stores
#19  Object oriented DBMS
Websitealasql.orggeode.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantorigodb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlgeode.apache.org/­docscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantorigodb.com/­docs
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Robert Friberg et al
Initial release2014200220102009 infounder the name LiveDB
Current release1.1, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfirecommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaErlangC#
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)All OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredhostedLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoUser defined using .NET types and collections
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 infocan be achieved using .NET
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL-like query language (OQL)nono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes
Triggersyesyes infoCache Event Listenersyesyes infoDomain Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronized
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonodepending on model
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageyes, on a single nodeno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes infoWrite ahead log
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights per client and object definableAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseRole based authorization

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