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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Kingbase vs. LeanXcale vs. mSQL vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Kingbase vs. LeanXcale vs. mSQL vs. Vitess

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonLeanXcale  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilitiesmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#257  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Score0.36
Rank#280  Overall
#40  Key-value stores
#129  Relational DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#169  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Score0.88
Rank#203  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.kingbase.com.cnwww.leanxcale.comhughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlvitess.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.LeanXcaleHughes TechnologiesThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release20141999201519942013
Current releaseV8.0, August 20214.4, October 202115.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercialcommercialcommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC and JavaCGo
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.Standard with numerous extensionsyes infothrough Apache DerbyA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C
Java
Scala
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnoyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDnoACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesnoyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
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.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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