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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache Pinot vs. Galaxybase vs. JaguarDB vs. Lovefield

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

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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	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Website

google.github.io/lovefield

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.pinot.apache.org

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

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

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

DataJaguar, Inc.

Google

Initial release

2014

2015

2017

2015

2014

Current release

1.0.0, September 2023

Nov 20, November 2021

3.3 July 2023

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C and Java

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

JavaScript

Server operating systems

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

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

Linux

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Strong typed schema

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like query language

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Go
Java
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined procedures and functions

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

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

Role-based access control

rights management via user accounts

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