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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Ingres vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Splice Machine

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Ingres vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Splice Machine

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudWell established RDBMSElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Search engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#252  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticssplicemachine.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.actian.com/­ingresdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticssplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAmazonActian CorporationMicrosoftSplice Machine
Initial release201420121974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s20162014
Current release11.2, May 20223.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaScriptCC++Java
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.nono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableno
Secondary indexesnoyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIHTTP API.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC#
Java
PHP
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesTransact SQLyes infoJava
Triggersyesnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredhorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslySharding, horizontal partitioningShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infomanaged transparently by AWSIngres ReplicatoryesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoYes, via Full Spark Integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCCyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
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.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoauthentication via encrypted signaturesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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