DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Apache Pinot vs. Greenplum vs. H2 vs. Heroic

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache Pinot vs. Greenplum vs. H2 vs. Heroic

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

Analytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database

A logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.

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

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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

Score	0.38
Rank	#275	Overall
	#126	Relational DBMS

Score	8.08
Rank	#48	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Website

github.com/spotify/heroic

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.pinot.apache.org

docs.greenplum.org

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

spotify.github.io/heroic

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Pivotal Software Inc.

Thomas Mueller

Spotify

Initial release

2014

2015

2005

2014

Current release

1.0.0, September 2023

7.0.0, September 2023

2.2.220, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

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

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

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

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

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

since Version 4.2

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Go
Java
Python

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

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

yes

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

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

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

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