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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Brytlyt vs. Infobright vs. OpenQM vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Scalable GPU-accelerated RDBMS for very fast analytic and streaming workloads, leveraging PostgreSQL

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

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

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.29
Rank	#288	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#298	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

brytlyt.io

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

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

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.brytlyt.io

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Brytlyt

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2014

2016

2005

1993

2013

Current release

5.0, August 2023

3.4-12

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C, C++ and CUDA

C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in PL/pgSQL

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

simple password-based access control

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