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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Drill vs. Machbase Neo vs. MaxDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Drill vs. Machbase Neo vs. MaxDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon Redshift  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryLarge scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence toolsSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.49
Rank#259  Overall
#40  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score19.03
Rank#34  Overall
#21  Relational DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#119  Overall
#23  Document stores
#56  Relational DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#324  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score2.65
Rank#111  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgaws.amazon.com/­redshiftdrill.apache.orgmachbase.commaxdb.sap.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.aws.amazon.com/­redshiftdrill.apache.org/­docsmachbase.com/­dbmsmaxdb.sap.com/­documentation
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAmazon (based on PostgreSQL)Apache Software FoundationMachbaseSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997
Initial release20142012201220131984
Current release1.20.3, January 2023V8.0, August 20237.9.10.12, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infofree test version availablecommercial infoLimited community edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptCCC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnorestrictednoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yes infodoes not fully support an SQL-standardSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC++C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions infoin Pythonuser defined functionsnoyes
Triggersyesnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesselectable replication factorSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoinformational only, not enforced by the systemnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesDepending on the underlying data sourcenoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesDepending on the underlying data sourceyes infovolatile and lookup tableno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardDepending on the underlying data sourcesimple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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