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

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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.

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Rank	#104	Overall
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Score	5.21
Rank	#79	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#353	Overall
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

github.com/agershun/alasql

drill.apache.org/docs

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

machbase.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/MAN/overview

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Apache Software Foundation

Machbase

Initial release

2014

2012

1997

2013

Current release

1.19.0, June 2021

10.15.2.0, March 2020

V6.5, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

free test version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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.

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

HTTP REST
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C++

Java

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java Stored Procedures

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

selectable replication factor

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

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

volatile and lookup table

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

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