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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Kinetica vs. Raima Database Manager vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into an application or used as a database server

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
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	0.64
Rank	#236	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Score	0.46
Rank	#259	Overall
	#120	Relational DBMS
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Website

alasql.org

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.kinetica.com

raima.com

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.kinetica.com

docs.raima.com

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Kinetica

Raima Inc.

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2014

2012

1984

2018

Current release

7.1, August 2021

15, June 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C, C++

Scala

Server operating systems

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

hosted

Linux

Android
HP-UX
Integrity RTOS
iOS
Linux
OS X
QNX
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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.

Exporting/Importing of XML structures possible

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
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C
C++
Objective-C
PL/SQL

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

yes

based on the ANSI/ISO SQL Persistent Stored Modules (PSM) specification

Triggers

yes

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

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

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate 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

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles on table level

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