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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Newts vs. RisingWave

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Newts vs. RisingWave

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonRisingWave  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBTime Series DBMS based on CassandraA distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.58
Rank#242  Overall
#111  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantopennms.github.io/­newtswww.risingwave.com/­database
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikidocs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­intro
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014OpenNMS GroupRisingWave Labs
Initial release2014201020142022
Current release1.2, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptErlangJavaRust
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesStandard SQL-types and JSON
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 indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nonoyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIRESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP REST
Java API
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
JavaGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnoUDFs in Python or Java
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
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 possiblenono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyes
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.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenoUsers and Roles

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