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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. LevelDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. PouchDB vs. SwayDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeSearch engineDocument storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score2.25
Rank#115  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitealasql.orggithub.com/­google/­leveldbazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchpouchdb.comswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mdlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchpouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffGoogleMicrosoftApache Software FoundationSimer Plaha
Initial release20142011201520122018
Current release1.23, February 2021V17.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoBSDcommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++JavaScriptScala
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesnono
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 indexesnonoyesyes infovia viewsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nononono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIRESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
JavaScriptJava
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenononoAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyes infowith automatic compression on writesyesyes 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.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoyes infousing Azure authenticationnono

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