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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache Drill vs. atoti vs. Drizzle

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

An in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.49
Rank	#259	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	2.28
Rank	#119	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	0.59
Rank	#242	Overall
	#10	Object oriented DBMS

Website

alasql.org

drill.apache.org

atoti.io

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

drill.apache.org/docs

docs.atoti.io

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Apache Software Foundation

ActiveViam

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Initial release

2014

2012

2008

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

7.2.4, September 2012

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

free versions available

Open Source

GNU GPL

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

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.

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

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C++

C
C++
Java
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Python

Triggers

yes

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
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

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

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