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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. IBM Cloudant vs. MonetDB vs. MySQL vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. IBM Cloudant vs. MonetDB vs. MySQL vs. RocksDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonMySQL  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA relational database management system that stores data in columnsWidely used open source RDBMSEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoKey/Value like access via memcached APIKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.42
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score2.85
Rank#95  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score1.72
Rank#135  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score1029.49
Rank#2  Overall
#2  Relational DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#97  Overall
#16  Key-value stores
Websitealasql.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.monetdb.orgwww.mysql.comrocksdb.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationdev.mysql.com/­docgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wiki
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014MonetDB BVOracle infosince 2010, originally MySQL AB, then SunFacebook, Inc.
Initial release20142010200419952013
Current releaseDec2023 (11.49), December 20239.0.0, July 20249.4.0, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are availableOpen Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptErlangCC and C++C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyesno
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsyes infowith proprietary extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes, in SQL, C, Ryes infoproprietary syntaxno
Triggersyesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding via remote tableshorizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabrichorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineno
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 possibleACIDACID infonot for MyISAM storage engineyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesno

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