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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. DuckDB vs. EXASOL vs. Oracle Rdb vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMS

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.42
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	5.61
Rank	#60	Overall
	#34	Relational DBMS

Score	1.66
Rank	#138	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	1.04
Rank	#184	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

duckdb.org

www.exasol.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

duckdb.org/docs

www.exasol.com/resources

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Exasol

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

SAP

Initial release

2014

2018

2000

1984

2010

Current release

1.0.0, June 2024

7.4.1.1, 2021

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

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

server-less

HP Open VMS

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C#

3rd party driver
C++
Crystal

3rd party driver
Go

3rd party driver
Java
Lisp

3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby

3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig

3rd party driver

Java
Lua
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

yes, on a single node

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

yes

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