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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. VoltDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.61
Rank	#215	Overall
	#33	Document stores
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Score	1.72
Rank	#127	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/agershun/alasql

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2014

2010

Current release

10.1, October 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java, C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

Snapshots and command logging

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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