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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache Impala vs. GeoSpock vs. Ingres vs. SQLite

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Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

Well established RDBMS

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	13.77
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	4.11
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

impala.apache.org

geospock.com

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

docs.actian.com/ingres

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

GeoSpock

Actian Corporation

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2014

2013

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2000

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

2.0, September 2019

11.2, May 2022

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Java, Javascript

Server operating systems

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

Linux

hosted

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

yes

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Automatic sharding

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

Ingres Replicator

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

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

MVCC

yes

via file-system locks

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

Access rights for users can be defined per table

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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