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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Hazelcast vs. Infobright vs. JaguarDB vs. Lovefield

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Hazelcast vs. Infobright vs. JaguarDB vs. Lovefield

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA widely adopted in-memory data gridHigh performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Score1.02
Rank#192  Overall
#90  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#381  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orghazelcast.comignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbwww.jaguardb.comgoogle.github.io/­lovefield
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docswww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmlgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.md
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffHazelcastIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.DataJaguar, Inc.Google
Initial release20142008200520152014
Current release5.3.6, November 20233.3 July 20232.1.12, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016Open Source infoGPL V3.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaCC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesJavaScript
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)All OS with a Java VMLinux
Windows
Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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 strategynonono
Secondary indexesnoyesno infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL-like query languageyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder pattern
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesnonono
Triggersyesyes infoEventsnonoUsing read-only observers
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoReplicated MapSource-replica replicationMulti-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
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 commitedACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesnoyes infousing MemoryDB
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesrights management via user accountsno

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