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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. PlanetScale vs. PouchDB vs. Riak TS vs. UniData,UniVerse

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonUniData,UniVerse  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVMultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSMultivalue DBMS
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
Score1.49
Rank#155  Overall
#72  Relational DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.28
Rank#307  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score2.85
Rank#98  Overall
#1  Multivalue DBMS
Websitealasql.orgplanetscale.compouchdb.comwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-unidata
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlplanetscale.com/­docspouchdb.com/­guideswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffPlanetScaleApache Software FoundationOpen Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesRocket Software
Initial release20142020201220151985
Current release7.1.1, June 20193.0.0, September 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen SourceOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptGoJavaScriptErlangC
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Docker
Linux
macOS
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnonooptional
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infovia viewsrestrictedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yes infowith proprietary extensionsnoyes, limitedyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Java API infoJPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
JavaScriptC 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
.Net
Basic infoU2 Basic
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoproprietary syntaxView functions in JavaScriptErlangyes
Triggersyesyesyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyes infoU2 Basic
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
selectable replication factorSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage enginenono infolinks between datasets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACID at shard levelnonoACID infoconfigurable
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesnonoAccess rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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