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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache Drill vs. HarperDB vs. Infobright vs. NSDb

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS librarySchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageUltra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Relational DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score0.55
Rank#248  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score0.96
Rank#194  Overall
#91  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Websitealasql.orgdrill.apache.orgwww.harperdb.ioignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbnsdb.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.harperdb.io/­docsnsdb.io/­Architecture
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffApache Software FoundationHarperDBIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.
Initial release20142012201720052017
Current release1.20.3, January 20233.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infofree community edition availablecommercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptNode.jsCJava, Scala
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Linux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freedynamic schemayes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infoJSON data typesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, string
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonononono
Secondary indexesnonoyesno infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL-like data manipulation statementsyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC++.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Java
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsCustom Functions infosince release 3.1nono
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusternoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoAtomic execution of specific operationsACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageDepending on the underlying data sourceyes, using LMDByesUsing Apache Lucene
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoDepending on the underlying data sourceAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

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