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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Apache Kylin vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. IBM Cloudant

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache Kylin vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. IBM Cloudant

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonApache Kylin  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  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 stackA horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
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Score0.42
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score1.14
Rank#171  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score2.69
Rank#101  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Score2.85
Rank#95  Overall
#18  Document stores
Websitealasql.orgkylin.apache.orgcloud.google.com/­spannerwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudant
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlkylin.apache.org/­docscloud.google.com/­spanner/­docscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffApache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay IncGoogleIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release2014201520172010
Current release3.1.0, July 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaErlang
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linuxhostedhosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesno
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)yes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011no
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
Triggersyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflowyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrityno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACID infoStrict serializable isolationno infoatomic operations within a document possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic locking
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.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users can be defined per database

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