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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Graphite vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Sequoiadb

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Graphite vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Sequoiadb

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  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 CouchDBNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.50
Rank#258  Overall
#41  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orggithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.sequoiadb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlgraphite.readthedocs.iocloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffChris DavisIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Sequoiadb Ltd.
Initial release2014200620102013
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaScriptPythonErlangC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Unix
hostedLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoNumeric data onlynoyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regex
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 indexesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nonoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIHTTP API
Sockets
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIproprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptJavaScript
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
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 possibleDocument is locked during a transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoAccess rights for users can be defined per databasesimple password-based access control

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