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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Apache Drill vs. Apache Druid vs. FoundationDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache Drill vs. Apache Druid vs. FoundationDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
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 dataOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score1.06
Rank#185  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#85  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgdrill.apache.orgdruid.apache.orggithub.com/­apple/­foundationdb
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldrill.apache.org/­docsdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designapple.github.io/­foundationdb
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation and contributorsFoundationDB
Initial release2014201220122013
Current release1.20.3, January 202329.0.1, April 20246.2.28, November 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-free infosome layers support schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesno infosome layers support typing
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnonoyesno
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 queryingsupported in specific SQL layer only
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC++Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnoin SQL-layer only
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneImmediate ConsistencyLinearizable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoin SQL-layer only
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesDepending on the underlying data sourceno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoDepending on the underlying data sourceRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemno

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