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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. EXASOL vs. SingleStore vs. Snowflake vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

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

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

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	0.49
Rank	#259	Overall
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	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	2.25
Rank	#120	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Score	5.91
Rank	#61	Overall
	#34	Relational DBMS

Score	123.20
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.15
Rank	#337	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Website

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.exasol.com/resources

docs.singlestore.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Exasol

SingleStore Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2014

2000

2013

2014

1987

Current release

8.5, January 2024

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++, Go

C and C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux

64 bit version required

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java
Lua
Python
R

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

hash partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

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

yes

Source-replica replication

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

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

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.

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 control via users, groups and roles

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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