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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Citus vs. Oracle vs. ScyllaDB vs. SQream DB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Scalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQL

Widely used RDBMS

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

Key-value store

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Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	2.15
Rank	#117	Overall
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	4.08
Rank	#76	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Score	0.74
Rank	#224	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.citusdata.com

www.oracle.com/database

www.scylladb.com

sqream.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.citusdata.com

docs.oracle.com/en/database

docs.scylladb.com

docs.sqream.com

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Oracle

ScyllaDB

SQream Technologies

Initial release

2014

2010

1980

2015

2017

Current release

8.1, December 2018

23c, September 2023

ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

AGPL, commercial license also available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C and C++

C++

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

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

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

cluster global secondary indices

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

standard, with numerous extensions

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

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

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

compatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

yes, Lua

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

yes

in-memory tables

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users can be defined per object

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