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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Apache Druid vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. Geode vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache Druid vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. Geode vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonDatastax Enterprise  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataDataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform.Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Wide column storeKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score5.80
Rank#60  Overall
#4  Wide column stores
Score1.92
Rank#131  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score4.25
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgdruid.apache.orgwww.datastax.com/­products/­datastax-enterprisegeode.apache.orgwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.html
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.datastax.comgeode.apache.org/­docshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffApache Software Foundation and contributorsDataStaxOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.SAP infoformerly Sybase
Initial release20142012201120021992
Current release29.0.1, April 20246.8, April 20201.1, February 201717, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache license v2commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfirecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaJavaJava
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Unix
Linux
OS X
All OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL for queryingSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQLSQL-like query language (OQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Proprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin infowith DSE Graph
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononouser defined functionsyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl
Triggersyesnoyesyes infoCache Event Listenersyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedSharding infono "single point of failure"Shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computingMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroring
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency infoconsistency level can be individually decided with each write operation
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenono infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsyes, on a single nodeACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyesyes
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 objectAccess rights per client and object definablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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AlaSQLApache DruidDatastax EnterpriseGeodeSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere
Specific characteristicsDataStax Enterprise is scale-out data infrastructure for enterprises that need to...
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Competitive advantagesSupporting the following application requirements: Zero downtime - Built on Apache...
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Typical application scenariosApplications that must be massively and linearly scalable with 100% uptime and able...
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Key customersCapital One, Cisco, Comcast, eBay, McDonald's, Microsoft, Safeway, Sony, UBS, and...
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Market metricsAmong the Forbes 100 Most Innovative Companies, DataStax is trusted by 5 of the top...
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Licensing and pricing modelsAnnual subscription
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