DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. RethinkDB vs. SiteWhere vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. RethinkDB vs. SiteWhere vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	24.97
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	2.58
Rank	#105	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#347	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#384	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

alasql.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

rethinkdb.com

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

rethinkdb.com/docs

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Microsoft

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

SiteWhere

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2014

2009

2010

2018

Current release

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

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

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

predefined scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

range based

Sharding

based on HBase

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

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

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

Atomic single-document operations

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes

users and table-level permissions

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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