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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon Aurora vs. Netezza vs. Sadas Engine vs. Sequoiadb

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon Aurora  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryMySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by AmazonData warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score7.91
Rank#50  Overall
#32  Relational DBMS
Score9.06
Rank#46  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#158  Relational DBMS
Score0.45
Rank#261  Overall
#41  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgaws.amazon.com/­rds/­aurorawww.ibm.com/­products/­netezzawww.sadasengine.comwww.sequoiadb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.aws.amazon.com/­AmazonRDS/­latest/­AuroraUserGuide/­CHAP_Aurora.htmlwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentationwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAmazonIBMSADAS s.r.l.Sequoiadb Ltd.
Initial release20142015200020062013
Current release8.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercialcommercialcommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinux infoincluded in applianceAIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regex
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesyesyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyesnoJavaScript
Triggersyesyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDDocument is locked during a transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'no
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access control

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