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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Apache Kylin vs. BigObject vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache Kylin vs. BigObject vs. Vitess

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonApache Kylin  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  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 queriesScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score1.25
Rank#170  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score0.88
Rank#203  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgkylin.apache.orgbigobject.iovitess.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlkylin.apache.org/­docsdocs.bigobject.iovitess.io/­docs
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffApache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay IncBigObject, Inc.The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release2014201520152013
Current release3.1.0, July 202015.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaGo
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)
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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.nonono
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 infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuayes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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