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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Apache Druid vs. Coveo vs. GridGain

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache Druid vs. Coveo vs. GridGain

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonCoveo  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataAI-powered hosted search, recommendation and personalization platform providing tools for both low-code and full-code developmentGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Search engineKey-value store
Relational 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
Score2.28
Rank#114  Overall
#11  Search engines
Score1.47
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#72  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgdruid.apache.orgwww.coveo.comwww.gridgain.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.coveo.comwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffApache Software Foundation and contributorsCoveoGridGain Systems, Inc.
Initial release2014201220122007
Current release29.0.1, April 2024GridGain 8.5.1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache license v2commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaJava, C++, .Net
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Unix
hostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedhybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configurationyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL for queryingnoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP APIHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)
Triggersyesnoyesyes (cache interceptors and events)
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedyesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesyesyes (replicated cache)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemgranular access controls, API key management, content filtersSecurity Hooks for custom implementations

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