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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Graph Engine vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Trino

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Hosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

Cloud-based data warehousing service

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	74.45
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	0.67
Rank	#232	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#34	Key-value stores

Score	1.37
Rank	#160	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	4.99
Rank	#65	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.graphengine.io

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

trino.io

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

Social network pages

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Amazon

Microsoft

IBM

Trino Software Foundation

Initial release

2014

2012

2010

2014

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

.NET and C

Java

Server operating systems

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

hosted

.NET

hosted

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

depending on connected data-source

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL, SQL PL

yes, depending on connected data-source

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

depending on connected data-source

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

depending on connected data-source

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

depending on connected data-source

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

ACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and region

ACID

depending on connected data-source

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

yes

depending on connected data-source

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

SQL standard access control

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