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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Infobright vs. OpenEdge vs. Sequoiadb vs. Solr

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Infobright vs. OpenEdge vs. Sequoiadb vs. Solr

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryHigh performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendApplication development environment with integrated database management systemNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Search engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial 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
Score1.02
Rank#192  Overall
#90  Relational DBMS
Score3.45
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#258  Overall
#41  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score41.02
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Websitealasql.orgignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbwww.progress.com/­openedgewww.sequoiadb.comsolr.apache.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexsolr.apache.org/­resources.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.Progress Software CorporationSequoiadb Ltd.Apache Software Foundation
Initial release20142005198420132006
Current releaseOpenEdge 12.2, March 20209.6.1, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016commercialOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2Open Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptCC++Java
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyes 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.nonoyesnoyes
Secondary indexesnono infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadyesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL-like query languageSolr Parallel SQL Interface
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol using JSONJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language).Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesJavaScriptJava plugins
Triggersyesnoyesnoyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonehorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4ShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDDocument is locked during a transactionoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yesyesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesUsers and groupssimple password-based access controlyes

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