DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Amazon Redshift vs. atoti vs. Cubrid vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon Redshift vs. atoti vs. Cubrid vs. SpaceTime

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

An in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.

CUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTP

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
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	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.56
Rank	#245	Overall
	#10	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#169	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Website

alasql.org

aws.amazon.com/redshift

atoti.io

cubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.atoti.io

cubrid.org/manuals

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

ActiveViam

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Mireo

Initial release

2014

2012

2008

2020

Current release

11.0, January 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

free versions available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C, C++, Java

C++

Server operating systems

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

hosted

Linux
Windows

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.

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

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Python

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Source-replica replication

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

yes

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