DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Apache Impala vs. SAP HANA vs. SAP IQ vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache Impala vs. SAP HANA vs. SAP IQ vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	12.45
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

alasql.org

impala.apache.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

help.sap.com/hana

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

SAP

SAP, formerly Sybase

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2014

2013

2010

1994

2020

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

yes

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Hadoop integration

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

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

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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