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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Tkrzw vs. Ultipa

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Enhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

High performance Graph DBMS supporting HTAP high availability cluster deployment

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Graph DBMS

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

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

Score	2.06
Rank	#118	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Score	3.50
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#338	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.percona.com/software/mysql-database/percona-server

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

dbmx.net/tkrzw

www.ultipa.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.percona.com/downloads/Percona-Server-LATEST

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

www.ultipa.com/document

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Percona

SAP

formerly Sybase

Mikio Hirabayashi

Ultipa

Initial release

2014

2008

1992

2020

2019

Current release

8.0.36-28, 2024

17, July 2015

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

none

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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