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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. EXASOL vs. MonetDB vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	1.76
Rank	#139	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#141	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

alasql.org

www.exasol.com

www.monetdb.org

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.exasol.com/resources

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Exasol

MonetDB BV

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2014

2000

2004

2019

Current release

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Clojure

Server operating systems

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

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

SQL 2003 with some extensions

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java
Lua
Python
R

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes, in SQL, C, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Sharding via remote tables

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

yes, each node contains all data

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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