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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache Kylin vs. IBM Cloudant vs. OrigoDB

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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

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Document store
Object oriented 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	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#380	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#19	Object oriented DBMS

Website

alasql.org

kylin.apache.org

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

origodb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

kylin.apache.org/docs

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

origodb.com/docs

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Robert Friberg et al

Initial release

2014

2015

2010

2009

under the name LiveDB

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

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

Linux

hosted

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

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)

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

Write ahead log

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Role based authorization

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