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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon Redshift vs. gStore vs. SAP HANA

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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.

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.42
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	15.25
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#367	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#18	RDF stores

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

aws.amazon.com/redshift

en.gstore.cn

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

SAP

Initial release

2014

2012

2016

2010

Current release

1.2, November 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

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

hosted

Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

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.

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

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

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

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

yes

ACID

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

yes

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