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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. JaguarDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud Platform

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

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Score	0.49
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Score	4.49
Rank	#79	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Score	0.09
Rank	#356	Overall
	#53	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Website

alasql.org

cloud.google.com/datastore

www.jaguardb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Google

DataJaguar, Inc.

Initial release

2014

2008

2015

Current release

3.3 July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Server operating systems

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

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, details here

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

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like query language (GQL)

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

using Google App Engine

Triggers

yes

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication using Paxos

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration

Strong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

Serializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

rights management via user accounts

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