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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Altibase vs. Google BigQuery vs. Teradata

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	44.87
Rank	#22	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

altibase.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.teradata.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

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

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.teradata.com

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Altibase

Google

Teradata

Initial release

2014

1999

2010

1984

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

hosted

hosted
Linux

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

Secondary indexes

yes

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

SQL

Support of SQL

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

ANSI SQL-92

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C++
Java

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

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

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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