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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache Impala vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Drizzle

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Name

This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	0.49
Rank	#259	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	14.03
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

impala.apache.org

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Atos Convergence Creators

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Initial release

2014

2013

2016

2008

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

1703

7.2.4, September 2012

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

GNU GPL

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

LDAP

JDBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

All languages with LDAP bindings

C
C++
Java
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Triggers

yes

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

cell division

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

Atomic execution of specific 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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

LDAP bind authentication

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

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