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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

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	0.67
Rank	#232	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#34	Key-value stores

Score	0.32
Rank	#289	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Microsoft

OpenPie

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2014

2010

2018

Current release

2.1, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

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

Scala

Server operating systems

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

.NET

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

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

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

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

Atomic execution of operations

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

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

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Key customers

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