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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. SpatiaLite vs. Teradata Aster vs. VelocityDB vs. YDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. SpatiaLite vs. Teradata Aster vs. VelocityDB vs. YDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparisonYDB  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS librarySpatial extension of SQLitePlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and typesA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Document store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.42
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score1.56
Rank#142  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
#21  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.39
Rank#269  Overall
#43  Document stores
#126  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexvelocitydb.comgithub.com/­ydb-platform/­ydb
ydb.tech
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.htmlvelocitydb.com/­UserGuideydb.tech/­en/­docs
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAlessandro FurieriTeradataVelocityDB IncYandex
Initial release20142008200520112019
Current release5.0.0, August 20207.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++C#
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)server-lessLinuxAny that supports .NETLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File StoreyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
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.nonoyes infoin Aster File Storenono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesyesnoSQL-like query language (YQL)
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
.NetRESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
.NetGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoR packagesnono
TriggersyesyesnoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.Active-passive shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Frameworknono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardBased on Windows AuthenticationAccess rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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