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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. DuckDB vs. Greenplum vs. HarperDB vs. Machbase Neo

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. DuckDB vs. Greenplum vs. HarperDB vs. Machbase Neo

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryAn embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSAnalytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#74  Overall
#40  Relational DBMS
Score8.37
Rank#48  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score0.55
Rank#248  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score0.12
Rank#339  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Websitealasql.orgduckdb.orggreenplum.orgwww.harperdb.iomachbase.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlduckdb.org/­docsdocs.greenplum.orgdocs.harperdb.io/­docsmachbase.com/­dbms
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffPivotal Software Inc.HarperDBMachbase
Initial release20142018200520172013
Current release0.10, February 20247.0.0, September 20233.1, August 2021V8.0, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree community edition availablecommercial infofree test version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++Node.jsC
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)server-lessLinuxLinux
OS X
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesdynamic schemayes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes infoJSON data typesyes
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.nonoyes infosince Version 4.2nono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesyesSQL-like data manipulation statementsSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIArrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C# info3rd party driver
C++
Crystal info3rd party driver
Go info3rd party driver
Java
Lisp info3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby info3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig info3rd party driver
C
Java
Perl
Python
R
.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesCustom Functions infosince release 3.1no
Triggersyesnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusterSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneSource-replica replicationyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDAtomic execution of specific operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes, using LMDBno
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyesyes infovolatile and lookup table
User concepts infoAccess controlnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolessimple password-based access control

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