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

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

Analytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database

A logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.56
Rank	#226	Overall
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	#108	Relational DBMS

Score	3.08
Rank	#104	Overall
	#21	Document stores
	#53	Relational DBMS

Score	13.33
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#353	Overall
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

github.com/agershun/alasql

drill.apache.org/docs

docs.greenplum.org

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

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Apache Software Foundation

Pivotal Software Inc.

Machbase

Initial release

2014

2012

2005

2013

Current release

1.19.0, June 2021

6.7.1, April 2020

V6.5, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free test version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Server operating systems

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

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

since Version 4.2

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
ODBC

HTTP REST
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C++

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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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