DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Riak TS vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Riak TS vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SwayDB

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

alasql.org

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Sybase, SAP

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2014

2015

1993

2018

Current release

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Erlang

Scala

Server operating systems

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

Linux
OS X

Linux
Windows

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes, limited

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

yes

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

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

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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