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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Apache Druid vs. FatDB vs. LokiJS vs. Pinecone

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache Druid vs. FatDB vs. LokiJS vs. Pinecone

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataA .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.In-memory JavaScript DBMSA managed, cloud-native vector database
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Key-value store
Document storeVector DBMS
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Websitealasql.orgdruid.apache.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.pinecone.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffApache Software Foundation and contributorsFatCloudPinecone Systems, Inc
Initial release20142012201220142019
Current release29.0.1, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache license v2commercialOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaC#JavaScript
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Unix
Windowsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnoString, Number, Boolean
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 indexesnoyesyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL for queryingno infoVia inetgration in SQL Servernono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
JavaScript APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C#JavaScriptPython
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infovia applicationsView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyesnoyes infovia applicationsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesselectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenonono infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsno

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