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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Drill

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Drill

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Wide column storeSearch engineDocument store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storeaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdrill.apache.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdrill.apache.org/­docs
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAlibabaAmazonApache Software Foundation
Initial release2014201620122012
Current release1.20.3, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesno
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Implementation languageJavaScript
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnonoyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nonoSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIHTTP APIHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJava
Python
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononouser defined functions
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infomanaged transparently by AWS
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageAtomic single-row operationsnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesDepending on the underlying data source
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoDepending on the underlying data source
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensauthentication via encrypted signaturesDepending on the underlying data source

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