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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache Druid vs. NuoDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality data

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.49
Rank	#259	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	3.29
Rank	#95	Overall
	#49	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.99
Rank	#195	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

druid.apache.org

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

doc.nuodb.com

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Initial release

2014

2012

2013

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

limited edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C++

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux
OS X
Unix

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

SQL for querying

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

tunable commit protocol

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Temporary table

User concepts

Access control

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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