DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Amazon Redshift vs. GeoSpock vs. LeanXcale vs. Milvus

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon Redshift vs. GeoSpock vs. LeanXcale vs. Milvus

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Name

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Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#291	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	2.31
Rank	#113	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Website

alasql.org

aws.amazon.com/redshift

geospock.com

www.leanxcale.com

milvus.io

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

GeoSpock

LeanXcale

Initial release

2014

2012

2015

2019

Current release

2.0, September 2019

2.3.4, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java, Javascript

C++, Go

Server operating systems

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

hosted

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

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

temporal, categorical

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

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

through Apache Derby

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
Java
Scala

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
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

Automatic sharding

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable 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

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 for users can be defined per table

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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