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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. LevelDB vs. PouchDB vs. Splice Machine

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. LevelDB vs. PouchDB vs. Splice Machine

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS		Key-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMS
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Score0.55
Rank#232  Overall
#35  Document stores
#111  Relational DBMS
Score2.97
Rank#102  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score3.10
Rank#99  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score0.79
Rank#195  Overall
#93  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orggithub.com/­google/­leveldbpouchdb.comsplicemachine.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­agershun/­alasqlgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­master/­doc/­index.mdpouchdb.com/­guidesdoc.splicemachine.com
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffGoogleApache Software FoundationSplice Machine
Initial release2014201120122014
Current release1.23, February 20217.1.1, June 20193.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoBSDOpen SourceOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++JavaScriptJava
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows		server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenononoyes
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 indexesnonoyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nonoyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API		JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding		JavaScriptC#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoView functions in JavaScriptyes infoJava
Triggersyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning
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
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesYes, via Full Spark Integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyes infowith automatic compression on writesyes 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.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnononoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard
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