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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. atoti vs. Hazelcast vs. IBM Cloudant

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

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonatoti  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryAn in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.A widely adopted in-memory data gridDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Object oriented DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12
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
#11  Object oriented DBMS
Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Websitealasql.orgatoti.iohazelcast.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudant
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.atoti.iohazelcast.org/­imdg/­docscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffActiveViamHazelcastIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release201420082010
Current release5.3.6, November 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infofree versions availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaJavaErlang
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)All OS with a Java VMhosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesno
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.noyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategyno
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)SQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPythonyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor ServicesView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
Triggersyesyes infoEventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding, horizontal partitioningShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoReplicated MapMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedno infoatomic operations within a document possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes infoOptimistic locking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRole-based access controlAccess rights for users can be defined per database

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