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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. EXASOL vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Oracle Rdb vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

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

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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	1.66
Rank	#138	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	5.75
Rank	#58	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	1.04
Rank	#184	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.exasol.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

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

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.exasol.com/resources

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

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

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Exasol

Microsoft

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

SAP

Initial release

2014

2000

2015

1984

2010

Current release

7.4.1.1, 2021

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Server operating systems

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

hosted

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

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java
Lua
Python
R

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

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

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

using Azure authentication

yes

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