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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache Drill vs. Apache Pinot vs. LokiJS

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

Realtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latency

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

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Score	0.42
Rank	#264	Overall
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Score	1.90
Rank	#126	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	0.35
Rank	#274	Overall
	#128	Relational DBMS

Score	0.44
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores

Website

alasql.org

drill.apache.org

pinot.apache.org

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

drill.apache.org/docs

docs.pinot.apache.org

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Apache Software Foundation

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Initial release

2014

2012

2015

2014

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

1.0.0, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

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

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C++

Go
Java
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

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