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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Graph Engine vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. OpenTenBase

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

An enterprise-level distributed HTAP open source database based on PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

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

Score	0.61
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	77.99
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.graphengine.io

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

github.com/OpenTenBase/OpenTenBase
www.opentenbase.org

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

docs.opentenbase.org
docs.opentenbase.org/en

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Microsoft

OpenAtom Foundation, previously Tencent

Initial release

2014

2010

Current release

V12

2.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

BSD-3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

.NET and C

C++

Server operating systems

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

.NET

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
Go
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, with always 3 replicas available

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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