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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. ClickHouse vs. SAP IQ

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Column-oriented Relational DBMS powering Yandex

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.81
Rank	#255	Overall
	#37	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	14.97
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	4.64
Rank	#87	Overall
	#45	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

clickhouse.tech

www.sap.com/products/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

github.com/agershun/alasql

clickhouse.tech/docs

help.sap.com/iq

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Clickhouse Inc.

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2014

2016

1994

Current release

v23.4.1.1943-stable, April 2023

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

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

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes, when using the MergeTree engine

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

Close to ANSI SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

HTTP REST
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Scala

3rd party library

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

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

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

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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