DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Google BigQuery vs. HEAVY.AI vs. OpenQM

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Google BigQuery vs. HEAVY.AI vs. OpenQM

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Name

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

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#298	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Website

alasql.org

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

cloud.google.com/bigquery

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.heavy.ai

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Atos Convergence Creators

Google

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Initial release

2014

2016

2010

2016

1993

Current release

1703

5.10, January 2022

3.4-12

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C++ and CUDA

Server operating systems

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

Linux

hosted

Linux

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

with some exceptions

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

LDAP

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

All languages with LDAP bindings

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

cell division

none

Sharding

Round robin

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

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

LDAP bind authentication

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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