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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. MonetDB vs. OrigoDB vs. Pinecone vs. Riak KV

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA relational database management system that stores data in columnsA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseA managed, cloud-native vector databaseDistributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
Secondary database modelsDocument 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
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#380  Overall
#50  Document stores
#18  Object oriented DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websitealasql.orgwww.monetdb.orgorigodb.comwww.pinecone.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationorigodb.com/­docsdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffMonetDB BVRobert Friberg et alPinecone Systems, IncOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release201420042009 infounder the name LiveDB20192009
Current releaseDec2023 (11.49), December 20233.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaScriptCC#Erlang
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesUser defined using .NET types and collectionsString, Number, Booleanno
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.nono infocan be achieved using .NETnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsnonono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.NetPythonC infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, in SQL, C, RyesErlang
Triggersyesyesyes infoDomain Eventsyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding via remote tableshorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesdepending on modelno infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyes infoWrite ahead logyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole based authorizationyes, using Riak Security

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