DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Amazon Redshift vs. gStore vs. Infobright vs. ScyllaDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon Redshift vs. gStore vs. Infobright vs. ScyllaDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Key-value store

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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	0.04
Rank	#359	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#18	RDF stores

Score	0.96
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	4.75
Rank	#68	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Website

alasql.org

aws.amazon.com/redshift

en.gstore.cn

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

www.scylladb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

docs.scylladb.com

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

ScyllaDB

Initial release

2014

2012

2016

2005

2015

Current release

1.2, November 2023

ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

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

hosted

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

schema-free

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

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

cluster global secondary indices

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

compatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

yes, Lua

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

yes

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

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

in-memory tables

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

Access rights for users can be defined per object

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