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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Drizzle vs. Lovefield

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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.

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

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	0.42
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	0.92
Rank	#195	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#306	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

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

google.github.io/lovefield

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

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

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Alibaba

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Google

Initial release

2014

2008

2014

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

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

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C#
Java
PHP
Python

C
C++
Java
PHP

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

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