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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Apache Drill vs. Apache Pinot vs. BigObject vs. SAP Adaptive Server

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache Drill vs. Apache Pinot vs. BigObject vs. SAP Adaptive Server

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Adaptive Server infoformer name: Sybase ASE  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS librarySchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesThe SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith Boeing's Spatial Query Server
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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
Score0.38
Rank#275  Overall
#126  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score35.09
Rank#25  Overall
#17  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgdrill.apache.orgpinot.apache.orgbigobject.iowww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-ase.html
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.pinot.apache.orgdocs.bigobject.iohelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_ASE
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation and contributorsBigObject, Inc.SAP, Sybase
Initial release20142012201520151987
Current release1.20.3, January 20231.0.0, September 202316.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree community edition availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaC and C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java JDK11 or higherLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC++Go
Java
Python
C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsLuaJava and Transact-SQL
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioningnonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenonenoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyes
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 datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yes
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 sourceyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoDepending on the underlying data sourcenofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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