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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Memcached vs. Netezza vs. ToroDB vs. YugabyteDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Memcached vs. Netezza vs. ToroDB vs. YugabyteDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparisonYugabyteDB  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingData warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQLHigh-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.42
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score16.84
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score7.56
Rank#48  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score2.48
Rank#108  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.memcached.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­netezzagithub.com/­torodb/­serverwww.yugabyte.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikidocs.yugabyte.com
github.com/­yugabyte/­yugabyte-db
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalIBM8KdataYugabyte Inc.
Initial release20142003200020162017
Current release1.6.29, June 20242.19, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL-V3Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptCJavaC and C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux infoincluded in applianceAll OS with a Java 7 VMLinux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freedepending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_idyes
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 indexesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noyesyes, PostgreSQL compatible
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIProprietary protocolJDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesyes infosql, plpgsql, C
Triggersyesnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingShardingHash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallitySource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationBased on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDnoDistributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStoragenoyesyesyes infobased on RocksDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights for users and rolesyes
More information provided by the system vendor
AlaSQLMemcachedNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBMToroDBYugabyteDB
Specific characteristicsYugabyteDB is an open source distributed SQL database for cloud native transactional...
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Competitive advantagesPostgreSQL compatible: Get instantly productive with a PostgreSQL compatible RDBMS....
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Typical application scenariosSystems of record and engagement for cloud native applications that require resilience,...
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Market metrics2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache 2.0 license for the database
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