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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Kinetica vs. PouchDB vs. Ultipa

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Kinetica vs. PouchDB vs. Ultipa

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonUltipa  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBHigh performance Graph DBMS supporting HTAP high availability cluster deployment
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.19
Rank#330  Overall
#30  Graph DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.kinetica.compouchdb.comwww.ultipa.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.kinetica.compouchdb.com/­guideswww.ultipa.com/­document
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffKineticaApache Software FoundationUltipa
Initial release2014201220122019
Current release7.1, August 20217.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC, C++JavaScript
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesno
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScriptC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and roles on table levelno

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