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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. HugeGraph vs. Memcached vs. Oracle NoSQL

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.49
Rank#259  Overall
#40  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score0.15
Rank#339  Overall
#33  Graph DBMS
Score20.74
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score2.96
Rank#103  Overall
#18  Document stores
#17  Key-value stores
#52  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orggithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
www.memcached.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosql
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlhugegraph.apache.org/­docsgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikidocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffBaiduDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalOracle
Initial release2014201820032011
Current release0.91.6.25, March 202423.3, December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaCJava
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
macOS
Unix
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnooptional
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nonoSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
Proprietary protocolRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptGroovy
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoasynchronous Gremlin script jobsnono
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasenone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnovia hugegraph-sparknowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoedges in graphnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDnoconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesnoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infooff heap cache
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers, roles and permissionsyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolAccess rights for users and roles

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