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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Altibase vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. Hive

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Hosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud.

There is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward Sciore

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
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Score	1.02
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	1.88
Rank	#133	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	59.76
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

altibase.com

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

cloud.google.com/bigquery

hive.apache.org

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Altibase

Amazon

Google

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Initial release

2014

1999

2007

2010

2012

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

3.1.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Java

Server operating systems

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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

ANSI SQL-92

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C++
Java

.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

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

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Access rights for users, groups and roles

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