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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Apache Kylin vs. Hive vs. HugeGraph vs. IBM Cloudant

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache Kylin vs. Hive vs. HugeGraph vs. IBM Cloudant

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonApache Kylin  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  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 stackdata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph 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
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Websitealasql.orgkylin.apache.orghive.apache.orggithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
www.ibm.com/­products/­cloudant
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlkylin.apache.org/­docscwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homehugegraph.apache.org/­docscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffApache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay IncApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookBaiduIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release20142015201220182010
Current release3.1.0, July 20203.1.3, April 20220.9
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaJavaJavaErlang
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Unix
hosted
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 indexesnoyesyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyes
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 statementsnono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC++
Java
PHP
Python
Groovy
Java
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceasynchronous Gremlin script jobsView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factoryes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyes infoquery execution via MapReducevia hugegraph-sparkyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infoedges in graphno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDno 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.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and rolesUsers, roles and permissionsAccess rights for users can be defined per database

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