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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache Pinot vs. atoti vs. H2 vs. SQream DB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

An in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.

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

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
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Score	0.40
Rank	#270	Overall
	#125	Relational DBMS

Score	0.56
Rank	#245	Overall
	#10	Object oriented DBMS

Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	0.70
Rank	#227	Overall
	#104	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.pinot.apache.org

docs.atoti.io

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

docs.sqream.com

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

ActiveViam

Thomas Mueller

SQream Technologies

Initial release

2014

2015

2005

2017

Current release

1.0.0, September 2023

2.2.220, July 2023

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free versions available

Open Source

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

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

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

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Go
Java
Python

Java

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

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

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

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, 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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