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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. IRONdb vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. RethinkDB vs. Solr

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Document storeSearch engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score2.95
Rank#100  Overall
#17  Document stores
#17  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score42.91
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Websitealasql.orgwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlrethinkdb.comsolr.apache.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmlrethinkdb.com/­docssolr.apache.org/­resources.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffCirconus LLC.OracleThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Apache Software Foundation
Initial release20142017201120092006
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 201823.3, December 20232.4.1, August 20209.6.0, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC and C++JavaC++Java
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxLinux
Solaris SPARC/x86
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.schema-freeyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infotext, numeric, histogramsoptionalyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic 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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)SQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSolr Parallel SQL Interface
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIHTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, in LuanoJava plugins
TriggersyesnonoClient-side triggers through changefeedsyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeShardingSharding inforange basedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featureSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationyesspark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)Atomic single-document operationsoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCC basedyes
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 infooff heap cachenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoAccess rights for users and rolesyes infousers and table-level permissionsyes

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