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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Apache Drill vs. Ingres vs. Interbase vs. Kyligence Enterprise

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache Drill vs. Ingres vs. Interbase vs. Kyligence Enterprise

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonKyligence Enterprise  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS librarySchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageWell established RDBMSLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandA distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache Kylin
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.49
Rank#259  Overall
#40  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#119  Overall
#23  Document stores
#56  Relational DBMS
Score4.67
Rank#77  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Score5.04
Rank#71  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score0.39
Rank#276  Overall
#125  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgdrill.apache.orgwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasekyligence.io/­kyligence-enterprise
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.actian.com/­ingresdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbase
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffApache Software FoundationActian CorporationEmbarcaderoKyligence, Inc.
Initial release201420121974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s19842016
Current release1.20.3, January 202311.2, May 2022InterBase 2020, December 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptCCJava
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.nonono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableno infoexport as XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantyesyesANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC++.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyesyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger language
Triggersyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslynone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneIngres ReplicatorInterbase Change Views
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCCyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesDepending on the underlying data sourcenoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoDepending on the underlying data sourcefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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