DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Druid vs. OrigoDB vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Druid vs. OrigoDB vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality data

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
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	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	3.34
Rank	#88	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

alasql.org

aws.amazon.com/redshift

druid.apache.org

origodb.com

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

origodb.com/docs

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Robert Friberg et al

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2014

2012

2009

under the name LiveDB

2020

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C++

Server operating systems

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

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

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 for querying

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

.Net

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

depending on model

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

Write ahead log

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

Role based authorization

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