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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Apache Drill vs. Blueflood vs. Heroic vs. MaxDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache Drill vs. Blueflood vs. Heroic vs. MaxDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS librarySchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#353  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score2.32
Rank#112  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgdrill.apache.orgblueflood.iogithub.com/­spotify/­heroicmaxdb.sap.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldrill.apache.org/­docsgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikispotify.github.io/­heroicmaxdb.sap.com/­documentation
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffApache Software FoundationRackspaceSpotifySAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997
Initial release20142012201320141984
Current release1.20.3, January 20237.9.10.12, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoLimited community edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freepredefined schemeschema-freeyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnononoyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC++.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnonoyes
Triggersyesnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infobased on CassandraShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on CassandrayesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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 sourcenonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoDepending on the underlying data sourcenofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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