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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Graphite vs. IBM Cloudant vs. SAP HANA vs. SQLite

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonSAP HANA  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBIn-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud serviceWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score44.69
Rank#22  Overall
#16  Relational DBMS
Score114.32
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orggithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.sap.com/­products/­hana.htmlwww.sqlite.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlgraphite.readthedocs.iocloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudanthelp.sap.com/­hanawww.sqlite.org/­docs.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffChris DavisIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014SAPDwayne Richard Hipp
Initial release20142006201020102000
Current release2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 20233.45.3  (15 April 2024), April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoPublic Domain
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno infoalso available as a cloud based serviceno
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Implementation languageJavaScriptPythonErlangC
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Unix
hostedAppliance or cloud-serviceserver-less
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes infodynamic column types
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoNumeric data onlynoyesyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nonoyesyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIHTTP API
Sockets
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptSQLScript, Rno
Triggersyesnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingyesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenono infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes infovia file-system locks
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseyesno

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