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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Apache Drill vs. Coveo vs. MaxDB vs. OceanBase

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache Drill vs. Coveo vs. MaxDB vs. OceanBase

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonCoveo  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonOceanBase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS librarySchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageAI-powered hosted search, recommendation and personalization platform providing tools for both low-code and full-code developmentA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsA distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQL
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Relational DBMS
Search engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score2.11
Rank#118  Overall
#11  Search engines
Score2.26
Rank#114  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score1.57
Rank#149  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgdrill.apache.orgwww.coveo.commaxdb.sap.comen.oceanbase.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.coveo.commaxdb.sap.com/­documentationen.oceanbase.com/­docs/­oceanbase-database
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffApache Software FoundationCoveoSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997OceanBase infopreviously Alibaba and Ant Group
Initial release20142012201219842010
Current release1.20.3, January 20237.9.10.12, February 20244.3.0, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialcommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoCommercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freehybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configurationyesyes
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.nonononoyes
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 compliantnoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC++C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ada infoin MySQL-compatible model
C infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++ infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D infoin MySQL-compatible model
Delphi infoin MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel infoin MySQL-compatible model
Erlang infoin MySQL-compatible model
Haskell infoin MySQL-compatible model
Java infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js) infoin MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C infoin MySQL-compatible model
OCaml infoin MySQL-compatible model
Perl infoin MySQL-compatible model
PHP infoin MySQL-compatible model
Python infoin MySQL-compatible model
Ruby infoin MySQL-compatible model
Scheme infoin MySQL-compatible model
Tcl infoin MySQL-compatible model
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnoyesPL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible mode
Triggersyesnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingyesnonehorizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication using Paxos
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 integrityyesnoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoyesACIDACID
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 sourceno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoDepending on the underlying data sourcegranular access controls, API key management, content filtersfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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