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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache Drill vs. Pinecone vs. SiteWhere

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS librarySchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageA managed, cloud-native vector databaseM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Relational DBMS
Vector DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Websitealasql.orgdrill.apache.orgwww.pinecone.iogithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffApache Software FoundationPinecone Systems, IncSiteWhere
Initial release2014201220192010
Current release1.20.3, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJava
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freepredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesString, Number, Booleanyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC++Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions
Triggersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesDepending on the underlying data sourcenono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoDepending on the underlying data sourceUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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