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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Graph Engine vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Graph Engine vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. VictoriaMetrics

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparisonVictoriaMetrics  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerA drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.A fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.42
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score0.56
Rank#241  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#34  Key-value stores
Score72.95
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#250  Overall
#39  Document stores
Score1.23
Rank#165  Overall
#15  Time Series DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.graphengine.ioazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasewww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodbvictoriametrics.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqldocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodbdocs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/­VictoriaMetrics/­VictoriaMetrics/­wiki
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffMicrosoftMicrosoftPerconaVictoriaMetrics
Initial release20142010201020152018
Current releaseV123.4.10-2.10, November 2017v1.91, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoGPL Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaScript.NET and CC++C++Go
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js).NEThostedLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noyesnono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol using JSONGraphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesTransact SQLJavaScriptno
Triggersyesnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes, with always 3 replicas availableSource-replica replicationSynchronous replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infovia In-Memory Engineno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles

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