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

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Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

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

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Vector DBMS

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

Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	2.02
Rank	#124	Overall
	#22	Document stores
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#337	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.78
Rank	#103	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Website

alasql.org

aws.amazon.com/redshift

drill.apache.org

machbase.com

milvus.io

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

drill.apache.org/docs

machbase.com/dbms

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation

Machbase

Initial release

2014

2012

2013

2019

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

V8.0, August 2023

2.4.4, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++, Go

Server operating systems

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

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C++

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

none

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

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

yes

volatile and lookup table

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Depending on the underlying data source

simple password-based access control

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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