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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Hive vs. Kinetica vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series 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	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	0.64
Rank	#236	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

aws.amazon.com/redshift

hive.apache.org

www.kinetica.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

docs.kinetica.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Kinetica

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2014

2012

2014

Current release

3.1.3, April 2022

7.1, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C, C++

Server operating systems

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

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C++
Java
PHP
Python

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Access rights for users and roles on table level

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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