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

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

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonKyligence Enterprise  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS librarySchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandA distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache KylinA relational database management system that stores data in columns
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score0.40
Rank#269  Overall
#124  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgdrill.apache.orgwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasekyligence.io/­kyligence-enterprisewww.monetdb.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.monetdb.org/­Documentation
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffApache Software FoundationEmbarcaderoKyligence, Inc.MonetDB BV
Initial release20142012198420162004
Current release1.20.3, January 2023InterBase 2020, December 2019Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialcommercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptCJavaC
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
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 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 compliantyesANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)yes infoSQL 2003 with some extensions
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC++.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageyes, in SQL, C, R
Triggersyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneSharding via remote tables
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneInterbase Change Viewsnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental status
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneImmediate 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 infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyes
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 sourceyesno
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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