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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache Drill vs. Derby vs. Galaxybase

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

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Score	0.49
Rank	#259	Overall
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Score	2.28
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Score	5.30
Rank	#66	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#375	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

drill.apache.org/docs

db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Apache Software Foundation

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

Initial release

2014

2012

1997

2017

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

10.17.1.0, November 2023

Nov 20, November 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C and Java

Server operating systems

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Strong typed schema

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.

yes

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

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C++

Java

Go
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java Stored Procedures

user defined procedures and functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

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

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

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