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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. IBM Cloudant vs. MySQL vs. Netezza vs. OushuDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. IBM Cloudant vs. MySQL vs. Netezza vs. OushuDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonMySQL  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonOushuDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBWidely used open source RDBMSData warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsA data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMS infoKey/Value like access via memcached APIRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial 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
Score1061.34
Rank#2  Overall
#2  Relational DBMS
Score8.59
Rank#45  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#355  Overall
#154  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.mysql.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­netezzawww.oushu.com/­product/­oushuDB
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdev.mysql.com/­docwww.oushu.com/­documentation
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Oracle infosince 2010, originally MySQL AB, then SunIBMOushu
Initial release2014201019952000
Current release8.4.0, April 20244.0.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptErlangC and C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux infoincluded in applianceLinux
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesFull-featured ANSI SQL support
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIRESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
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++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
C
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes infoproprietary syntaxyesyes
Triggersyesyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL FabricShardingyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyesHadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes 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 possibleACID infonot for MyISAM storage engineACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyesyes
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.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptKerberos, SSL and role based access

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