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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. KeyDB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SpatiaLite vs. Vertica

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonKeyDB  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryAn ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocolsOracles in-memory data grid solutionSpatial extension of SQLiteCloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeKey-value storeSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS infoColumn oriented
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#229  Overall
#32  Key-value stores
Score1.97
Rank#129  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score10.06
Rank#42  Overall
#26  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orggithub.com/­Snapchat/­KeyDB
keydb.dev
www.oracle.com/­java/­coherencewww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexwww.vertica.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.keydb.devdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencewww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.htmlvertica.com/­documentation
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffEQ Alpha Technology Ltd.OracleAlessandro FurieriOpenText infopreviously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard
Initial release20142019200720082005
Current release14.1, August 20235.0.0, August 202012.0.3, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoBSD-3commercialOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1commercial infoLimited community edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono infoon-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++JavaC++C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxAll OS with a Java VMserver-lessLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesYes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenopartial infoSupported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexesyesyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyes infoby using the Redis Search modulenoyesNo Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nonoyesFull 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocoJCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL infocharacter-based, interactive, front-end utility
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic
.Net
C++
Java
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuanonoyes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences
Triggersyesnoyes infoLive Eventsyesyes, called Custom Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingnonehorizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes, with selectable consistency levelnoneMulti-source replication infoOne, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono infoBi-directional Spark integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageOptimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scriptsconfigurableACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyes infoConfigurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logsyes infooptionallyyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple password-based access control and ACLauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash
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AlaSQLKeyDBOracle CoherenceSpatiaLiteVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™
Specific characteristicsDeploy-anywhere database for large-scale analytical deployments. Deploy off-cloud,...
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Competitive advantagesFast, scalable, and capable of high concurrency. Separation of compute/storage leverages...
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Typical application scenariosCommunication and network analytics, Embedded analytics, Fraud monitoring and Risk...
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Key customersAbiba Systems, Adform, adMarketplace, AmeriPride, Anritsu, AOL, Avito, Auckland Transport,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsCost-based models and subscription-based models are both available. One license is...
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