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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Hazelcast vs. SwayDB vs. VelocityDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA widely adopted in-memory data gridAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score5.97
Rank#57  Overall
#6  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitealasql.orghazelcast.comswaydb.simer.auvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffHazelcastSimer PlahaVelocityDB Inc
Initial release2014200820182011
Current release5.3.6, November 20237.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaScalaC#
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)All OS with a Java VMAny that supports .NET
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
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.noyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategynono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
.Net
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Java
Kotlin
Scala
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesnono
Triggersyesyes infoEventsnoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoReplicated Mapnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
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 commitedAtomic execution of operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
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.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRole-based access controlnoBased on Windows Authentication

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