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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. SQream DB vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	0.70
Rank	#227	Overall
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Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

alasql.org

cloud.google.com/datastore

sqream.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

docs.sqream.com

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Google

SQream Technologies

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2014

2008

2017

2011

Current release

2022.1.6, December 2022

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

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

hosted

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, details here

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

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

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

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

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

using Google App Engine

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal and vertical partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication using Paxos

none

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.

Immediate 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

ACID

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)

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