DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Cubrid vs. Heroic vs. SAP IQ vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Cubrid vs. Heroic vs. SAP IQ vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

CUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTP

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

column-oriented

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

Score	1.20
Rank	#169	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

alasql.org

cubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)

github.com/spotify/heroic

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

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

cubrid.org/manuals

spotify.github.io/heroic

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Spotify

SAP, formerly Sybase

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2014

2008

2014

1994

2011

Current release

11.0, January 2021

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C, C++, Java

Java

Server operating systems

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

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

yes

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

none

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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