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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. OpenEdge vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.42
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	5.75
Rank	#58	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	3.69
Rank	#78	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#330	Overall
	#45	Document stores

Website

alasql.org

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

www.progress.com/openedge

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Microsoft

Progress Software Corporation

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2014

2015

1984

2019

Current release

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Clojure

Server operating systems

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

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

close to SQL 92

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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 Azure authentication

Users and groups

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