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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon DocumentDB vs. AntDB vs. Apache Drill vs. Google BigQuery

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database service

A scalable, multi-tenant, MPP-architectured RDBMS for OLTP and OLAP operations, highly compatible with Oracle

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	1.91
Rank	#132	Overall
	#24	Document stores

Score	0.25
Rank	#303	Overall
	#137	Relational DBMS

Score	1.95
Rank	#127	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

www.asiainfo.com/en_us/product_aisware_antdb_detail.html

drill.apache.org

cloud.google.com/bigquery

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

drill.apache.org/docs

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

Social network pages

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

AsiaInfo Technologies Limited

Apache Software Foundation

Google

Initial release

2014

2019

2012

2010

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Server operating systems

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

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

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

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL2016 compliant

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

JDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

C++

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

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

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Depending on the underlying data source

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Depending on the underlying data source

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

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

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