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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Apache Kylin vs. Google BigQuery vs. Hive vs. IBM Cloudant

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache Kylin vs. Google BigQuery vs. Hive vs. IBM Cloudant

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonApache Kylin  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle BigQuery  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  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 stackLarge scale data warehouse service with append-only tablesdata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score1.18
Rank#172  Overall
#79  Relational DBMS
Score60.38
Rank#19  Overall
#13  Relational DBMS
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Websitealasql.orgkylin.apache.orgcloud.google.com/­bigqueryhive.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudant
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlkylin.apache.org/­docscloud.google.com/­bigquery/­docscwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffApache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay IncGoogleApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release20142015201020122010
Current release3.1.0, July 20203.1.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaJavaErlang
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxhostedAll OS with a Java VMhosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesno
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 indexesnoyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)yesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions infoin JavaScriptyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyes infoquery execution via MapReduceyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageno infoSince BigQuery is designed for querying datanono infoatomic operations within a document possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoOptimistic locking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level infoGoogle Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users, groups and rolesAccess rights for users can be defined per database

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