DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Amazon Redshift vs. EsgynDB vs. LokiJS vs. SAP Adaptive Server

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon Redshift vs. EsgynDB vs. LokiJS vs. SAP Adaptive Server

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	36.31
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.esgyn.cn

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Esgyn

SAP, Sybase

Initial release

2014

2012

2015

2014

1987

Current release

16.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++, Java

JavaScript

C and C++

Server operating systems

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

hosted

Linux

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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

via views

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

JavaScript

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Java Stored Procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Java and Transact-SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

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

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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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