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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Impala vs. Dgraph vs. Oracle

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Impala vs. Dgraph vs. Oracle

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon Redshift  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonOracle  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryLarge scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence toolsAnalytic DBMS for HadoopDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSWidely used RDBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store infowith Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS infowith Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS infosince Oracle 23
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score17.94
Rank#34  Overall
#21  Relational DBMS
Score13.77
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score1.45
Rank#156  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score1236.29
Rank#1  Overall
#1  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgaws.amazon.com/­redshiftimpala.apache.orgdgraph.iowww.oracle.com/­database
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.aws.amazon.com/­redshiftimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmldgraph.io/­docsdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAmazon (based on PostgreSQL)Apache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaDgraph Labs, Inc.Oracle
Initial release20142012201320161980
Current release4.1.0, June 202223c, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial inforestricted free version is available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptCC++GoC and C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes infoSchemaless in JSON and XML columns
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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesnorestrictedyesyesyes
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-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions infoin Pythonyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenoPL/SQL infoalso stored procedures in Java possible
Triggersyesnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingyesSharding, horizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesselectable replication factorSynchronous replication via RaftMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenono infocan be realized in PL/SQL
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate 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-storageACIDnoACIDACID infoisolation level can be parameterized
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes infoVersion 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and Kerberosno infoPlanned for future releasesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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