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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. etcd vs. Kingbase vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. etcd vs. Kingbase vs. YottaDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonetcd  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonYottaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA distributed reliable key-value storeAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.A fast and solid embedded Key-value store
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS infousing the Octo plugin
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score7.03
Rank#54  Overall
#5  Key-value stores
Score0.50
Rank#257  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#306  Overall
#44  Key-value stores
Websitealasql.orgetcd.io
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd
www.kingbase.com.cnyottadb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqletcd.io/­docs
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd/­tree/­master/­Documentation
yottadb.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.YottaDB, LLC
Initial release201419992001
Current release3.4, August 2019V8.0, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaScriptGoC and JavaC
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
Linux
Windows infoexperimental
Linux
Windows
Docker
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesno
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnonoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noStandard with numerous extensionsby using the Octo plugin
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIgRPC
JSON over HTTP
ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
PostgreSQL wire protocol infousing the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functions
Triggersyesyes, watching key changesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.yesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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