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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Blueflood vs. Geode vs. Infobright

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Score	0.51
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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#346	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.86
Rank	#134	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	1.02
Rank	#192	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

aws.amazon.com/redshift

blueflood.io

geode.apache.org

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

geode.apache.org/docs

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Rackspace

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Initial release

2014

2012

2013

2002

2005

Current release

1.1, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

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
OS X

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

predefined 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

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

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 query language (OQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

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

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

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

yes, on a single node

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

Access rights per client and object definable

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

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