DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Kdb vs. KeyDB vs. Sqrrl

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Kdb vs. KeyDB vs. Sqrrl

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Name

Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

High performance Time Series DBMS

An ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocols

Adaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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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	7.55
Rank	#53	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS
	#1	Vector DBMS

Score	0.71
Rank	#226	Overall
	#33	Key-value stores

Website

alasql.org

aws.amazon.com/redshift

kx.com

github.com/Snapchat/KeyDB
keydb.dev

sqrrl.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

code.kx.com

docs.keydb.dev

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.

Amazon

originally Sqrrl Data, Inc.

Initial release

2014

2012

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

2019

2012

Current release

3.6, May 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

free 32-bit version

Open Source

BSD-3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Java

Server operating systems

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

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes

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

table attribute 'grouped'

yes

by using the Redis Search module

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 query language (q)

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protoco

Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic

Actionscript
C

using GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

Lua

Triggers

yes

with views

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

making use of Hadoop

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

making use of Hadoop

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

similar paradigm used for internal processing

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs

Immediate Consistency

Document store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.

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

Optimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts

Atomic updates per row, document, or graph entity

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

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

rights management via user accounts

simple password-based access control and ACL

Cell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

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Specific characteristics

Integrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantages

provides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenarios

tick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customers

Goldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metrics

kdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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