DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Amazon Redshift vs. BigchainDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. KairosDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon Redshift vs. BigchainDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. KairosDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.42
Rank	#264	Overall
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	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	15.25
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.76
Rank	#216	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	1.41
Rank	#153	Overall
	#71	Relational DBMS

Score	0.60
Rank	#238	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Website

alasql.org

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.bigchaindb.com

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.heavy.ai

kairosdb.github.io

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Initial release

2014

2012

2016

2013

Current release

5.10, January 2022

1.2.2, November 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Python

C++ and CUDA

Java

Server operating systems

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

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

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

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

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