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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon Redshift vs. BigObject vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Teradata

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
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	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	76.78
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	44.87
Rank	#22	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

aws.amazon.com/redshift

bigobject.io

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

www.teradata.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.bigobject.io

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

docs.teradata.com

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

BigObject, Inc.

Microsoft

Teradata

Initial release

2014

2012

2015

2010

1984

Current release

V12

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

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

hosted

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

hosted

hosted
Linux

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash 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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Lua

Transact SQL

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

yes, with always 3 replicas available

Multi-source replication
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

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

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

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

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

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