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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Pinecone vs. searchxml vs. SiteWhere

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA managed, cloud-native vector databaseDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Vector DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#95  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.pinecone.iowww.searchxml.net/­category/­productsgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutssitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffPinecone Systems, Incinformationpartners gmbhSiteWhere
Initial release2014201920152010
Current release1.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++Java
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedWindowsLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freepredefined scheme
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nonono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptPythonC++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoon the application server
Triggersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
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 integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagemultiple readers, single writerno
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 controlnoDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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