DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Graph Engine vs. Postgres-XL vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Graph Engine vs. Postgres-XL vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Rank	#260	Overall
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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.61
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

alasql.org

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.graphengine.io

www.postgres-xl.org

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Microsoft

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2014

2012

2010

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2012

Current release

10 R1, October 2018

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

.NET and C

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

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

hosted

.NET

Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Windows

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.

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

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

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

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

MVCC

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

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

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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