DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Apache Drill vs. Drizzle vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Apache Drill vs. Drizzle vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

A real-time data warehousing service that can process petabytes of data with high concurrency and low latency. It is fully compatible with the MySQL protocol.

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	0.85
Rank	#207	Overall
	#96	Relational DBMS

Score	1.95
Rank	#127	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.alibabacloud.com/product/analyticdb-for-mysql

drill.apache.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.alibabacloud.com/help/doc-detail/93776.htm

drill.apache.org/docs

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

SAP

Initial release

2014

2012

2008

2010

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

7.2.4, September 2012

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

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

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C#
Java
PHP
Python

C++

C
C++
Java
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Depending on the underlying data source

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

yes

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