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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Blueflood vs. Graphite vs. Snowflake vs. Spark SQL

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score130.36
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgblueflood.iogithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.snowflake.comspark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikigraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmlspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffRackspaceChris DavisSnowflake Computing Inc.Apache Software Foundation
Initial release20142013200620142014
Current release3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaPythonScala
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Linux
Unix
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freepredefined schemeyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesNumeric data onlyyesyes
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesnononono
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nonoyesSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIHTTP RESTHTTP API
Sockets
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononouser defined functionsno
Triggersyesnonono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on Cassandranoneyesyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranoneyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
noneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnononoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationno

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