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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. SQL.JS

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  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 serverA drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.Port of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.60
Rank#246  Overall
#39  Document stores
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachewww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodbsql.js.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.intersystems.comdocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodbsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffInterSystemsPerconaAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release2014199720152012
Current release2018.1.4, May 20203.4.10-2.10, November 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infoGPL Version 2Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++JavaScript
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freedepending on used data modelschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesnoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript API.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
proprietary protocol using JSONJavaScript API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC#
C++
Java
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
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesJavaScriptno
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infovia In-Memory Engineyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and rolesAccess rights for users and rolesno

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