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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache Drill vs. Blueflood vs. Galaxybase vs. Kyligence Enterprise

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

A distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache Kylin

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
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Score	1.95
Rank	#127	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Score	0.40
Rank	#269	Overall
	#124	Relational DBMS

Website

kyligence.io/kyligence-enterprise

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

drill.apache.org/docs

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Apache Software Foundation

Rackspace

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

Kyligence, Inc.

Initial release

2014

2012

2013

2017

2016

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

Nov 20, November 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C and Java

Java

Server operating systems

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

predefined scheme

Strong typed schema

yes

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

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

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C++

Go
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

user defined procedures and functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

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

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

Role-based access control

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