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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache Impala vs. Sequoiadb vs. SurrealDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
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Score	12.45
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#190	Overall
	#33	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Sequoiadb Ltd.

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2014

2013

2022

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Rust

Server operating systems

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

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

proprietary protocol using JSON

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

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

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

Document is locked during a transaction

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

simple password-based access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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