DBMS > AlaSQL vs. EXASOL vs. SAP IQ vs. SiriDB vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. EXASOL vs. SAP IQ vs. SiriDB vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Time Series DBMS

Relational 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	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.exasol.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

siridb.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.exasol.com/resources

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

docs.siridb.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Exasol

SAP, formerly Sybase

Cesbit

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2014

2000

1994

2017

2014

Current release

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Server operating systems

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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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.

yes

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java
Lua
Python
R

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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