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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. BoltDB vs. Databricks vs. etcd vs. Hive

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonetcd  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryAn embedded key-value store for Go.The Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses to provide a unified view onto structured and unstructured data. It is based on Apache Spark.A distributed reliable key-value storedata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score81.08
Rank#15  Overall
#2  Document stores
#10  Relational DBMS
Score7.03
Rank#54  Overall
#5  Key-value stores
Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orggithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.databricks.cometcd.io
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd
hive.apache.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.databricks.cometcd.io/­docs
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd/­tree/­master/­Documentation
cwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Home
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffDatabricksApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by Facebook
Initial release2014201320132012
Current release3.4, August 20193.1.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptGoGoJava
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedFreeBSD
Linux
Windows infoexperimental
All OS with a Java VM
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenononoyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnonoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nowith Databricks SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC
JSON over HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptGoPython
R
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functions and aggregatesnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduce
Triggersyesnoyes, watching key changesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneyesUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infoquery execution via MapReduce
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageyesACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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 controlnononoAccess rights for users, groups and roles
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Specific characteristicsSupported database models : In addition to the Document store and Relational DBMS...
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