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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Kylin vs. HugeGraph

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

A distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stack

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

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Score	16.88
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Score	1.25
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Score	0.17
Rank	#335	Overall
	#31	Graph DBMS

Website

alasql.org

aws.amazon.com/redshift

kylin.apache.org

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

kylin.apache.org/docs

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Baidu

Initial release

2014

2012

2015

2018

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

0.9

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

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

hosted

Linux

Linux
macOS
Unix

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

also supports composite index and range index

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

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Groovy
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

edges in graph

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

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

Users, roles and permissions

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