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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. ArangoDB vs. Firebolt vs. Sadas Engine

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonArangoDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryNative multi-model DBMS for graph, document, key/value and search. All in one engine and accessible with one query language.Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score3.26
Rank#88  Overall
#15  Document stores
#5  Graph DBMS
#12  Key-value stores
#10  Search engines
Score1.73
Rank#140  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#373  Overall
#157  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgarangodb.comwww.firebolt.iowww.sadasengine.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.arangodb.comdocs.firebolt.iowww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentation
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeFacebookInstagram
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffArangoDB Inc.Firebolt Analytics Inc.SADAS s.r.l.
Initial release2014201220202006
Current release3.11.5, November 20238.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) availablecommercialcommercial infofree trial version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedAIX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infoautomatically recognizes schema within a collectionyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infostring, double, boolean, list, hashyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIAQL
Foxx Framework
Graph API (Gremlin)
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Java & SpringData
JSON style queries
VelocyPack/VelocyStream
.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC#
C++
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Rust
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJavaScriptnono
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infosince version 2.0horizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication with configurable replication factordepending on storage layernone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infocan be done with stored procedures in JavaScriptno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infoconfigurable per collection or per write
Immediate Consistency
OneShard (highly available, fault-tolerant deployment mode with ACID semantics)
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes inforelationships in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard
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AlaSQLArangoDBFireboltSadas Engine
Specific characteristicsGraph and Beyond. With more than 11,000 stargazers on GitHub, ArangoDB is the leading...
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Competitive advantagesConsolidation: As a native multi-model database, can be used as a full blown document...
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Typical application scenariosNative multi-model in ArangoDB is being used for a broad range of projects across...
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Key customersCisco, Barclays, Refinitive, Siemens Mentor, Kabbage, Liaison, Douglas, MakeMyTrip,...
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Market metricsArangoDB is the leading native multi-model database with over 11,000 stargazers on...
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Licensing and pricing modelsVery permissive Apache 2 License for Community Edition & commercial licenses are...
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