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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache Kylin vs. H2 vs. Riak TS vs. searchxml

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

A distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stack

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	1.25
Rank	#170	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Website

alasql.org

kylin.apache.org

www.h2database.com

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

kylin.apache.org/docs

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Thomas Mueller

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2014

2015

2005

2015

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

2.2.220, July 2023

3.0.0, September 2022

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

yes

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Erlang

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

selectable replication factor

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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