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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. LeanXcale vs. mSQL vs. PouchDB vs. TypeDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonLeanXcale  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilitiesmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBTypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS infoOften described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.36
Rank#280  Overall
#40  Key-value stores
#129  Relational DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#169  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.70
Rank#230  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#106  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.leanxcale.comhughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlpouchdb.comtypedb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlpouchdb.com/­guidestypedb.com/­docs
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffLeanXcaleHughes TechnologiesApache Software FoundationVaticle
Initial release20142015199420122016
Current release4.4, October 20217.1.1, June 20192.26.3, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercialcommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptCJavaScriptJava
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yes infothrough Apache DerbyA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersnono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
Java
Scala
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
JavaScriptAll JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding infoby using Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Multi-source replication infoby using Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesyes infoby using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono infosubstituted by the relationship feature
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesnoyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnononoyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
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AlaSQLLeanXcalemSQL infoMini SQLPouchDBTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn
Specific characteristicsTypeDB is a polymorphic database with a conceptual data model, a strong subtyping...
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Competitive advantagesTypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
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Typical application scenariosLife sciences : TypeDB makes working with biological data much easier and accelerates...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache f or language drivers, and AGPL and Commercial for the database server. The...
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