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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache Drill vs. Coveo vs. Kyligence Enterprise

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

AI-powered hosted search, recommendation and personalization platform providing tools for both low-code and full-code development

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

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

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Rank	#127	Overall
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Score	2.28
Rank	#114	Overall
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Score	0.40
Rank	#269	Overall
	#124	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

drill.apache.org

www.coveo.com

kyligence.io/kyligence-enterprise

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

drill.apache.org/docs

docs.coveo.com

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Apache Software Foundation

Coveo

Kyligence, Inc.

Initial release

2014

2012

2016

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

hybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configuration

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

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C++

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

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

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

granular access controls, API key management, content filters

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