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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. BigObject vs. Ingres

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

An online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on Greenplum

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Well established RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.68
Rank	#231	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	4.11
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

bigobject.io

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/analyticdb-for-postgresql/latest/product-introduction-overview

docs.bigobject.io

docs.actian.com/ingres

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

BigObject, Inc.

Actian Corporation

Initial release

2014

2016

2015

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

Current release

11.2, May 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Server operating systems

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

hosted

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

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

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Ingres Replicator

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

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

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

MVCC

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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