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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Hazelcast vs. IBM Cloudant vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

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Score	0.42
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	5.72
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	2.85
Rank	#95	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	103.35
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

hazelcast.com

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Hazelcast

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2014

2008

2010

2000

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

3.46.1 (13 August 2024), August 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

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

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

yes

the object must implement a serialization strategy

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

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

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Replicated Map

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Eventual 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

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

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

Role-based access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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