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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache Druid vs. Hive vs. InfinityDB vs. Quasardb

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  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 datadata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value 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
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#378  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitealasql.orgdruid.apache.orghive.apache.orgboilerbay.comquasar.ai
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homeboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffApache Software Foundation and contributorsApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookBoiler Bay Inc.quasardb
Initial release20142012201220022009
Current release29.0.1, April 20243.1.3, April 20224.03.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoApache Version 2commercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Unix
All OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VMBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyes 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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL for queryingSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Java.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenono
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingnoneSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesselectable replication factornoneSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenonoACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yesnonoyes 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, groups and rolesnoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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