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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Apache Drill vs. Blueflood vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Kyligence Enterprise

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache Drill vs. Blueflood vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Kyligence Enterprise

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonKyligence Enterprise  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS librarySchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraCloud-based data warehousing serviceA distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache Kylin
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational 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
Score1.30
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Score0.40
Rank#269  Overall
#124  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgdrill.apache.orgblueflood.iowww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousekyligence.io/­kyligence-enterprise
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldrill.apache.org/­docsgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wiki
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffApache Software FoundationRackspaceIBMKyligence, Inc.
Initial release20142012201320142016
Current release1.20.3, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaJava
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
hostedLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freepredefined schemeyesyes
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 infoImport/export of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesnononoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnoyesANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC++Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnoPL/SQL, SQL PL
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
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 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 sourcenoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoDepending on the underlying data sourcenofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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