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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Apache Druid vs. BoltDB vs. SQL.JS vs. Trino

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache Druid vs. BoltDB vs. SQL.JS vs. Trino

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonTrino  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataAn embedded key-value store for Go.Port of SQLite to JavaScriptFast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store
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
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.53
Rank#252  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Score5.00
Rank#66  Overall
#36  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgdruid.apache.orggithub.com/­boltdb/­boltsql.js.orgtrino.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.htmltrino.io/­broadcast
trino.io/­docs/­current
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeGitHub
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffApache Software Foundation and contributorsAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersTrino Software Foundation
Initial release20142012201320122012 info2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL
Current release29.0.1, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaGoJavaScriptJava
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Unix
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
macOS infofor devlopment
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyesyes
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 indexesnoyesnodepending on connected data-source
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL for queryingnoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JavaScript APIJDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
GoJavaScriptGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononoyes, depending on connected data-source
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infomanual/auto, time-basednonenonedepending on connected data-source
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesnonenonedepending on connected data-source
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistencynonenonedepending on connected data-source
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoyesACIDdepending on connected data-source
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a filedepending on connected data-source
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemnonoSQL standard access control
More information provided by the system vendor
AlaSQLApache DruidBoltDBSQL.JSTrino
Specific characteristicsTrino is the fastest open source, massively parallel processing SQL query engine...
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Competitive advantagesHigh performance analtyics and data processing of very large data sets Powerful ANSI...
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Typical application scenariosPerformant analytics query engine for data warehouses, data lakes, and data lakehouses...
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Key customersTrino is widely adopted across the globe as freely-available open source software....
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Market metrics33000+ commits in GitHub 8200+ stargazers in GitHub 1200+ pull requests merged in...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTrino is an open source project and usage is therefore free. Commercial offerings...
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