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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Pinecone vs. Postgres-XL vs. searchxml

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Pinecone vs. Postgres-XL vs. searchxml

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA managed, cloud-native vector databaseBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Vector DBMSRelational DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.42
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score3.02
Rank#87  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#260  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Websitealasql.orgwww.pinecone.iowww.postgres-xl.orgwww.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffPinecone Systems, Incinformationpartners gmbh
Initial release201420192014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2015
Current release10 R1, October 20181.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptCC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoString, Number, Booleanyesyes
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.nonoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noyes infodistributed, parallel query executionno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptPython.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyes infoon the application server
Triggersyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACID infoMVCCmultiple readers, single writer
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
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.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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