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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Memcached vs. Rockset vs. VoltDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.49
Rank	#259	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	20.74
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	1.46
Rank	#159	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

docs.rockset.com

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Rockset

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2014

2003

2019

2010

Current release

1.6.25, March 2024

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Java, C++

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

dynamic typing

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Proprietary protocol

HTTP REST

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic sharding

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

Snapshots and command logging

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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