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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Hypertable vs. Pinecone vs. Rockset

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopA managed, cloud-native vector databaseA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Wide column storeVector DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Websitealasql.orgwww.pinecone.iorockset.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffHypertable Inc.Pinecone Systems, IncRockset
Initial release2014200920192019
Current release0.9.8.11, March 2016
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
hostedhosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoString, Number, Booleandynamic typing
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 infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesnorestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nonoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIC++ API
Thrift
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
PythonGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor on file system levelyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenono
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.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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