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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. FeatureBase vs. SAP IQ vs. YTsaurus

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Real-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Document store
Key-value store

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

Score	0.22
Rank	#309	Overall
	#139	Relational DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#340	Overall
	#45	Document stores
	#50	Key-value stores

Website

alasql.org

www.featurebase.com

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

ytsaurus.tech

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.featurebase.com

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Molecula and Pilosa Open Source Contributors

SAP, formerly Sybase

Yandex

Initial release

2014

2017

1994

2023

Current release

2022, May 2022

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux
macOS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Ubuntu

Data scheme

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.

SQL queries

yes

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

yes

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

yes

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, using Linux fsync

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access Control Lists

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