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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. MarkLogic vs. MonetDB vs. OrigoDB vs. Riak KV

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonMarkLogic  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryOperational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL databaseA relational database management system that stores data in columnsA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseDistributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
Relational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Key-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score5.18
Rank#63  Overall
#11  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#7  Search engines
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#380  Overall
#50  Document stores
#18  Object oriented DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websitealasql.orgwww.marklogic.comwww.monetdb.orgorigodb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.marklogic.comwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationorigodb.com/­docswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffMarkLogic Corp.MonetDB BVRobert Friberg et alOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release2014200120042009 infounder the name LiveDB2009
Current release11.0, December 2022Dec2023 (11.49), December 20233.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++CC#Erlang
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infoSchema can be enforcedyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesUser defined using .NET types and collectionsno
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 infocan be achieved using .NETno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yes infoSQL92yes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsnono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJava API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API infoProprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.NetC infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infovia XQuery or JavaScriptyes, in SQL, C, RyesErlang
Triggersyesyesyesyes infoDomain Eventsyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding via remote tableshorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobsnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesdepending on modelno infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transactionACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes infoWrite ahead logyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes, with Range Indexesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRole-based access control at the document and subdocument levelsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole based authorizationyes, using Riak Security

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