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

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

An in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.42
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	0.87
Rank	#200	Overall
	#93	Relational DBMS

Score	0.45
Rank	#253	Overall
	#13	Object oriented DBMS

Score	52.67
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

altibase.com

atoti.io

cloud.google.com/bigquery

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

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

docs.atoti.io

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Altibase

ActiveViam

Google

Initial release

2014

1999

2010

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

free versions available

commercial

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

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

ANSI SQL-92

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C++
Java

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

Python

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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)

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