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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. atoti vs. GridGain vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Oracle Rdb

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonatoti  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryAn in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Object oriented DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document storeRelational 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
Score0.61
Rank#243  Overall
#10  Object oriented DBMS
Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score1.14
Rank#178  Overall
#80  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgatoti.iowww.gridgain.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.html
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.atoti.iowww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffActiveViamGridGain Systems, Inc.IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
Initial release2014200720101984
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.17.4.1.1, 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infofree versions availablecommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaJava, C++, .NetErlang
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedHP Open VMS
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPythonyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
Triggersyesyes (cache interceptors and events)yes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding, horizontal partitioningShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes (replicated cache)Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)yesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleyes, on a single node
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes 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.yesyesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsAccess rights for users can be defined per database

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