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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache Doris vs. Kingbase vs. Postgres-XL

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

An MPP-based analytics DBMS embracing the MySQL protocol

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	0.60
Rank	#247	Overall
	#113	Relational DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#257	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

doris.apache.org
github.com/apache/doris

www.kingbase.com.cn

www.postgres-xl.org

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

github.com/apache/doris/wiki

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from Baidu

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Initial release

2014

2017

1999

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

Current release

1.2.2, February 2023

V8.0, August 2021

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C and Java

Server operating systems

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

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
MySQL client

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

horizontal partitioning

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

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

MVCC

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

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