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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Apache Druid vs. Hypertable vs. LevelDB vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache Druid vs. Hypertable vs. LevelDB vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesA drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Wide column storeKey-value storeDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score2.25
Rank#115  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score0.60
Rank#246  Overall
#39  Document stores
Websitealasql.orgdruid.apache.orggithub.com/­google/­leveldbwww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodb
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mddocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodb
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffApache Software Foundation and contributorsHypertable Inc.GooglePercona
Initial release20142012200920112015
Current release29.0.1, April 20240.9.8.11, March 20161.23, February 20213.4.10-2.10, November 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoGPL Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaC++C++C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Unix
Linux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnonoyes
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 indexesnoyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL for queryingnonono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
C++ API
Thrift
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononoJavaScript
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesselectable replication factor on file system levelnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes infowith automatic compression on writesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infovia In-Memory Engine
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemnonoAccess rights for users and roles

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