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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon Redshift vs. FeatureBase vs. InfluxDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Real-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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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	0.22
Rank	#309	Overall
	#139	Relational DBMS

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Website

alasql.org

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.featurebase.com

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.featurebase.com

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Molecula and Pilosa Open Source Contributors

Initial release

2014

2012

2017

2013

Current release

2022, May 2022

2.7.6, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Server operating systems

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

hosted

Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

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

SQL queries

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java
Python

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

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

yes

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, using Linux fsync

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Depending on used storage engine

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

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