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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Apache Druid vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache Druid vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. SWC-DB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Wide column storeWide column store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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
Score4.04
Rank#77  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score0.08
Rank#364  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitealasql.orgdruid.apache.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tablesgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­design
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffApache Software Foundation and contributorsMicrosoftAlex Kashirin
Initial release2014201220122020
Current release29.0.1, April 20240.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache license v2commercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Unix
hostedLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes
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 indexesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL for queryingnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenooptimistic locking
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.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

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