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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. VelocityDB vs. VoltDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. VelocityDB vs. VoltDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryEnhanced 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 environmentsA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score0.42
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score2.06
Rank#118  Overall
#57  Relational DBMS
Score3.50
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
#21  Object oriented DBMS
Score1.38
Rank#156  Overall
#72  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.percona.com/­software/­mysql-database/­percona-serverwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlvelocitydb.comwww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.percona.com/­downloads/­Percona-Server-LATESThelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywherevelocitydb.com/­UserGuidedocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffPerconaSAP infoformerly SybaseVelocityDB IncVoltDB Inc.
Initial release20142008199220112010
Current release8.0.36-28, 202417, July 20157.x11.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoGPL version 2commercialcommercialOpen Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC and C++C#Java, C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Any that supports .NETLinux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.noyesyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesyesnoyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
.NetJava API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptAda
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
.NetC#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or PerlnoJava
TriggersyesyesyesCallbacks are triggered when data changesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster
Source-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnono infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDACIDACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes infoSnapshots and command logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardBased on Windows AuthenticationUsers and roles with access to stored procedures

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