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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache Drill vs. OrigoDB vs. Quasardb

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
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Score	1.95
Rank	#127	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

drill.apache.org/docs

origodb.com/docs

doc.quasar.ai/master

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Apache Software Foundation

Robert Friberg et al

quasardb

Initial release

2014

2012

2009

under the name LiveDB

2009

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

yes

integer and binary

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

with tags

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C++

.Net

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Sharding

consistent hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

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

Write ahead log

yes

by using LevelDB

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

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

Role based authorization

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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