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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Atos Standard Common Repository

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Name

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Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

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	#21	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

aws.amazon.com/redshift

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Atos Convergence Creators

Initial release

2014

2012

2016

Current release

1703

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

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

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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.

yes

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

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

LDAP

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

All languages with LDAP bindings

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

cell division

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

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

LDAP bind authentication

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