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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Databend vs. EXASOL vs. FoundationDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Databend vs. EXASOL vs. FoundationDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonDatabend  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryAn open-source, elastic, and workload-aware cloud data warehouse designed to meet businesses' massive-scale analytics needs at low cost and with low complexityHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.34
Rank#283  Overall
#130  Relational DBMS
Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score1.06
Rank#185  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#85  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orggithub.com/­datafuselabs/­databend
www.databend.com
www.exasol.comgithub.com/­apple/­foundationdb
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.databend.comwww.exasol.com/­resourcesapple.github.io/­foundationdb
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffDatabend LabsExasolFoundationDB
Initial release2014202120002013
Current release1.0.59, April 20236.2.28, November 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptRustC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hosted
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free infosome layers support schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesno infosome layers support typing
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnonoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesyessupported in specific SQL layer only
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APICLI Client
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Java
Lua
Python
R
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsin SQL-layer only
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoHadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyLinearizable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesin SQL-layer only
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageyesACIDACID
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.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user rolesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardno

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