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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Apache Kylin vs. BigObject vs. Faircom DB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache Kylin vs. BigObject vs. Faircom DB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonApache Kylin  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom DB infoformerly c-treeACE  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stackAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesNative high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedKey-value store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.49
Rank#259  Overall
#40  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score1.20
Rank#175  Overall
#80  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#342  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Score0.24
Rank#311  Overall
#44  Key-value stores
#140  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgkylin.apache.orgbigobject.iowww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-db
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlkylin.apache.org/­docsdocs.bigobject.iodocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffApache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay IncBigObject, Inc.FairCom Corporation
Initial release2014201520151979
Current release3.1.0, July 2020V12, November 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree community edition availablecommercial infoRestricted, free version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaANSI C, C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows infoeasily portable to other OSs
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)SQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuayes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++
Triggersyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneFile partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding infoCustomizable business rules for table partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneyes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenotunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesYes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memory
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for files

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