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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache Pinot vs. Cassandra vs. Lovefield

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Realtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latency

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

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Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	0.40
Rank	#270	Overall
	#125	Relational DBMS

Score	101.89
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

pinot.apache.org

cassandra.apache.org

google.github.io/lovefield

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.pinot.apache.org

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Google

Initial release

2014

2015

2008

2014

Current release

1.0.0, September 2023

4.1.3, July 2023

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

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

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like query language

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Go
Java
Python

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per object

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