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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Citus vs. Hive vs. JaguarDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLdata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score2.15
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#381  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
#15  Vector DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.citusdata.comhive.apache.orgwww.jaguardb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.citusdata.comcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homewww.jaguardb.com/­support.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookDataJaguar, Inc.
Initial release2014201020122015
Current release8.1, December 20183.1.3, April 20223.3 July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptCJavaC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languages
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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.noyes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yes infostandard, with numerous extensionsSQL-like DML and DDL statementsA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggers
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.yes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceno
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoquery execution via MapReduceno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and rolesrights management via user accounts

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