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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Apache Drill vs. ClickHouse vs. Cubrid vs. H2

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache Drill vs. ClickHouse vs. Cubrid vs. H2

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonClickHouse  Xexclude from comparisonCubrid  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS librarySchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageA high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.CUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTPFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
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Score0.53
Rank#258  Overall
#40  Document stores
#119  Relational DBMS
Score2.58
Rank#118  Overall
#23  Document stores
#56  Relational DBMS
Score16.31
Rank#37  Overall
#23  Relational DBMS
Score1.44
Rank#168  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score8.14
Rank#50  Overall
#32  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgdrill.apache.orgclickhouse.comcubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)
www.h2database.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldrill.apache.org/­docsclickhouse.com/­docscubrid.org/­manualswww.h2database.com/­html/­main.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffApache Software FoundationClickhouse Inc.CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID FoundationThomas Mueller
Initial release20142012201620082005
Current release1.20.3, January 2023v23.12.1.1368-stable, December 202311.0, January 20212.2.220, July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++C, C++, JavaJava
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Linux
Windows
All OS with a Java VM
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantClose to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)yesyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC++C# info3rd party library
C++
Elixir info3rd party library
Go info3rd party library
Java info3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party library
Kotlin info3rd party library
Nim info3rd party library
Perl info3rd party library
PHP info3rd party library
Python info3rd party library
R info3rd party library
Ruby info3rd party library
Rust
Scala info3rd party library
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyesJava Stored ProceduresJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions
Triggersyesnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingkey based and customnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneAsynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.Source-replica replicationWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
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 sourceyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoDepending on the underlying data sourceAccess rights for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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