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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Apache Druid vs. Apache Kylin vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Quasardb

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache Druid vs. Apache Kylin vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Quasardb

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonApache Kylin  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataA distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stackDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeTime Series 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
Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score1.18
Rank#172  Overall
#79  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitealasql.orgdruid.apache.orgkylin.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantquasar.ai
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designkylin.apache.org/­docscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffApache Software Foundation and contributorsApache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay IncIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014quasardb
Initial release20142012201520102009
Current release29.0.1, April 20243.1.0, July 20203.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaJavaErlangC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Unix
LinuxhostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnoyes infointeger and binary
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 indexesnoyesyesyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL for queryingANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)noSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptno
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyeswith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenono infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnononoyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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