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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Lovefield vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Lovefield vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. TigerGraph

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA multi-model DBMS and application serverEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptA drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score0.52
Rank#254  Overall
#39  Document stores
Score1.83
Rank#139  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachegoogle.github.io/­lovefieldwww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodbwww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.intersystems.comgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mddocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodbdocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffInterSystemsGooglePercona
Initial release20141997201420152017
Current release2018.1.4, May 20202.1.12, February 20173.4.10-2.10, November 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL Version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaScriptC++C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freedepending on used data modelyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternnoSQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript API.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
proprietary protocol using JSONGSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC#
C++
Java
JavaScriptActionscript
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
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoJavaScriptyes
TriggersyesyesUsing read-only observersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infousing MemoryDByes infovia In-Memory Engineno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnoAccess rights for users and rolesRole-based access control

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