DBMS > AlaSQL vs. InfinityDB vs. MySQL vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Quasardb

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. InfinityDB vs. MySQL vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Quasardb

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

Widely used open source RDBMS

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#378	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.52
Rank	#254	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Website

alasql.org

boilerbay.com

www.mysql.com

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

quasar.ai

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

doc.quasar.ai/master

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Boiler Bay Inc.

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Percona

quasardb

Initial release

2014

2002

1995

2015

2009

Current release

4.0

8.4.0, April 2024

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

GPL Version 2

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

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

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

yes

integer and binary

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

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

proprietary protocol using JSON

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

consistent hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

by using LevelDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

via In-Memory Engine

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Access rights for users and roles

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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