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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Apache Drill vs. Apache Kylin vs. EJDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache Drill vs. Apache Kylin vs. EJDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonApache Kylin  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS librarySchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageA distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stackEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score1.25
Rank#170  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score0.31
Rank#296  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score3.95
Rank#80  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgdrill.apache.orgkylin.apache.orggithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.html
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldrill.apache.org/­docskylin.apache.org/­docsgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay IncSoftmotionsSAP infoformerly Sybase
Initial release20142012201520121992
Current release1.20.3, January 20233.1.0, July 202017, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaC
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
Linuxserver-lessAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesnonoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)noyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
in-process shared libraryADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC++Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnoyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroring
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleyes
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 infoRead/Write Lockingyes
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 sourcenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoDepending on the underlying data sourcenofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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