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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. EXASOL vs. OpenSearch vs. Raima Database Manager vs. SingleStore

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into an application or used as a database server

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	1.99
Rank	#124	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.46
Rank	#259	Overall
	#120	Relational DBMS
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.60
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.exasol.com

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

raima.com

www.singlestore.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.exasol.com/resources

opensearch.org/docs/latest

docs.raima.com

docs.singlestore.com

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Exasol

Amazon Web Services

Raima Inc.

SingleStore Inc.

Initial release

2014

2000

2021

1984

2013

Current release

2.5.0, January 2023

15, June 2021

8.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C++, Go

Server operating systems

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

All OS with a Java VM

Android
HP-UX
Integrity RTOS
iOS
Linux
OS X
QNX
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Linux

64 bit version required

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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.

Exporting/Importing of XML structures possible

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java
Lua
Python
R

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

.Net
C
C++
Objective-C
PL/SQL

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

based on the ANSI/ISO SQL Persistent Stored Modules (PSM) specification

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

hash partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

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 control via users, groups and roles

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Customers in various industries worldwide including US and International Industry...
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Licensing and pricing models

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F ree Tier and Enterprise Edition
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News

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