DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Drizzle vs. jBASE vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Drizzle vs. jBASE vs. Snowflake

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Hosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud.

There is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward Sciore

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	1.85
Rank	#138	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Amazon

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2014

2007

2008

1991

2014

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

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

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

AIX
Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

yes

with proprietary extensions

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Java
PHP

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

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

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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