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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. HarperDB vs. Infobright vs. Memcached

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score2.89
Rank#103  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Score0.55
Rank#248  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score0.96
Rank#194  Overall
#91  Relational DBMS
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Websitealasql.orgcloud.google.com/­spannerwww.harperdb.ioignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbwww.memcached.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docsdocs.harperdb.io/­docsgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wiki
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffGoogleHarperDBIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.Danga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal
Initial release20142017201720052003
Current release3.1, August 20211.6.25, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availablecommercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016Open Source infoBSD license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptNode.jsCC
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinux
OS X
Linux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesdynamic schemayesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infoJSON data typesyesno
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
Secondary indexesnoyesyesno infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011SQL-like data manipulation statementsyesno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoCustom Functions infosince release 3.1nono
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusternonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.yes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedSource-replica replicationnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACID infoStrict serializable isolationAtomic execution of specific operationsACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyes, using LMDByesno
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

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