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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Linter vs. Memgraph vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

RDBMS for high security requirements

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.49
Rank	#259	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	19.03
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#350	Overall
	#153	Relational DBMS

Score	3.00
Rank	#102	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	78.40
Rank	#15	Overall
	#10	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

aws.amazon.com/redshift

linter.ru

memgraph.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

memgraph.com/docs

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

Social network pages

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

relex.ru

Memgraph Ltd

Microsoft

Initial release

2014

2012

1990

2017

2010

Current release

V12

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Free license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

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

hosted

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free and schema-optional

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

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

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes, with always 3 replicas available

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

relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

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

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

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

Users, roles and permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Licensing and pricing models

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