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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. IBM Cloudant vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Microsoft Access vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. IBM Cloudant vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Microsoft Access vs. Trafodion

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesMicrosoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.27
Rank#309  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesstrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storedeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesstrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014IBMMicrosoftApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20142010201719922014
Current release2.01902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20192.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercialcommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptErlangC and C++C++C++, Java
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIRESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyesyesnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Active-active shard replicationnoneyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageno infoatomic operations within a document possiblenoACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingNo - written data is immutableyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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