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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache Drill vs. Cubrid vs. Faircom DB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

CUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTP

Native high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.42
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	1.90
Rank	#126	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	0.97
Rank	#189	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#314	Overall
	#45	Key-value stores
	#141	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

drill.apache.org

cubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

drill.apache.org/docs

cubrid.org/manuals

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Apache Software Foundation

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

FairCom Corporation

Initial release

2014

2012

2008

1979

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

11.0, January 2021

V13, July 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C, C++, Java

ANSI C, C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

easily portable to other OSs

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures

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

yes

yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C++

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java Stored Procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

yes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction

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

ACID

tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent

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

Yes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memory

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for files

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