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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Apache Drill vs. Apache Druid vs. Axibase vs. Heroic

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache Drill vs. Apache Druid vs. Axibase vs. Heroic

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS librarySchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score0.42
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#126  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score2.85
Rank#96  Overall
#50  Relational DBMS
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#308  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#335  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitealasql.orgdrill.apache.orgdruid.apache.orgaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financegithub.com/­spotify/­heroic
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldrill.apache.org/­docsdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designspotify.github.io/­heroic
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation and contributorsAxibase CorporationSpotify
Initial release20142012201220132014
Current release1.20.3, January 202330.0.0, June 202415585
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache license v2commercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaJavaJava
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnonoyesnoyes infovia Elasticsearch
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL for queryingSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC++Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnoyesno
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesDepending on the underlying data sourcenono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoDepending on the underlying data sourceRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

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