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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. CrateDB vs. SAP IQ

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Distributed Date Store based on Lucene

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Document store
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.55
Rank	#232	Overall
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Score	1.00
Rank	#176	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS
	#13	Search engines

Score	4.65
Rank	#82	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

crate.io

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

Technical documentation

github.com/agershun/alasql

crate.io/docs

help.sap.com/iq

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Crate

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2014

2013

1994

Current release

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

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

All OS with a Java 7 (and higher) VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, 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

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes, but no triggers and constraints

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

ADO.NET

community maintained client
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Erlang
Go

community maintained client
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

community maintained client
Perl

community maintained client
PHP
Python
Ruby

community maintained client
Scala

community maintained client

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

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

Eventual Consistency
Read Your Own Writes Consistency

for primary key lookups

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

unique row identifiers can be used for implementing an optimistic concurrency control strategy

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

rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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