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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Ignite vs. Riak TS

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.69
Rank	#245	Overall
	#36	Document stores
	#113	Relational DBMS

Score	5.29
Rank	#78	Overall
	#10	Key-value stores
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#317	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Website

alasql.org

ignite.apache.org

riak.com/products/riak-ts

Technical documentation

github.com/agershun/alasql

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Apache Software Foundation

Basho Technologies

Initial release

2014

2015

Current release

Apache Ignite 2.6

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++, Java, .Net

Erlang

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

JavaScript and Erlang

Triggers

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes (replicated cache)

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Security Hooks for custom implementations

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