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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. atoti vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. PlanetScale vs. searchxml

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. atoti vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. PlanetScale vs. searchxml

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonatoti  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryAn in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Object oriented DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Document 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
Score0.61
Rank#243  Overall
#10  Object oriented DBMS
Score76.78
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score1.49
Rank#155  Overall
#72  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Websitealasql.orgatoti.ioazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databaseplanetscale.comwww.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.atoti.iodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqlplanetscale.com/­docswww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffActiveViamMicrosoftPlanetScaleinformationpartners gmbh
Initial release2014201020202015
Current releaseV121.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infofree versions availablecommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesyesno
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaC++GoC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedDocker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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.noyesyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)yesyes infowith proprietary extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPythonTransact SQLyes infoproprietary syntaxyes infoon the application server
Triggersyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding, horizontal partitioningShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes, with always 3 replicas availableMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACID at shard levelmultiple readers, single writer
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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