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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache Druid vs. Quasardb vs. Snowflake

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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

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series 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	0.19
Rank	#327	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	123.20
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

doc.quasar.ai/master

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

quasardb

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2014

2012

2009

2014

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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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

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-less columns are supported

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL for querying

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding

consistent hashing

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

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

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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