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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Machbase Neo vs. MaxDB vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Machbase Neo vs. MaxDB vs. Snowflake

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon Redshift  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryLarge scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence toolsTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score17.94
Rank#34  Overall
#21  Relational DBMS
Score0.12
Rank#339  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score2.32
Rank#112  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score121.33
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgaws.amazon.com/­redshiftmachbase.commaxdb.sap.comwww.snowflake.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.aws.amazon.com/­redshiftmachbase.com/­dbmsmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAmazon (based on PostgreSQL)MachbaseSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997Snowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release20142012201319842014
Current releaseV8.0, August 20237.9.10.12, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercialcommercial infofree test version availablecommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonoyes
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Implementation languageJavaScriptCCC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinux
macOS
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesnorestrictedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yes infodoes not fully support an SQL-standardSQL-like query languageyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions infoin Pythonnoyesuser defined functions
Triggersyesnonoyesno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingnoneyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoinformational only, not enforced by the systemnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesnoyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infovolatile and lookup tablenono
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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