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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Apache Drill vs. Drizzle

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.59
Rank#241  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbdrill.apache.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewdrill.apache.org/­docs
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAlibabaApache Software FoundationDrizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker
Initial release201420122008
Current release1.20.3, January 20237.2.4, September 2012
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGNU GPL
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJava
Python
C++C
C++
Java
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesuser defined functionsno
Triggersyesyesnono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesDepending on the underlying data sourceyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesDepending on the underlying data source
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardDepending on the underlying data sourcePluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTP
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