DBMS > AlaSQL vs. chDB vs. EXASOL vs. Galaxybase vs. SAP Adaptive Server

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. chDB vs. EXASOL vs. Galaxybase vs. SAP Adaptive Server

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

An embedded SQL OLAP Engine powered by ClickHouse

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

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#376	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	1.76
Rank	#139	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#377	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Score	35.09
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

github.com/chdb-io/chdb

www.exasol.com

galaxybase.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

doc.chdb.io

www.exasol.com/resources

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Exasol

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

SAP, Sybase

Initial release

2014

2023

2000

2017

1987

Current release

Nov 20, November 2021

16.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C and Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

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

server-less

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Strong typed schema

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.

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Bun
C
C++
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Java
Lua
Python
R

Go
Java
Python

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

user defined procedures and functions

Java and Transact-SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Relationships in graphs

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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