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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache Druid vs. Google BigQuery vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality data

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	0.49
Rank	#259	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	3.29
Rank	#95	Overall
	#49	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	61.90
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#373	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Website

alasql.org

druid.apache.org

cloud.google.com/bigquery

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Google

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2014

2012

2010

2018

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

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

Linux
OS X
Unix

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

schema-free

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.

SQL for querying

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

Atomic execution of operations

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

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

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