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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. GridGain vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	0.76
Rank	#220	Overall
	#102	Relational DBMS

Score	1.55
Rank	#150	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#70	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

alasql.org

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

www.gridgain.com

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

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

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2014

2016

2007

2013

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java, C++, .Net

C++

Server operating systems

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

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

Triggers

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes (replicated cache)

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

Security Hooks for custom implementations

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