DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Google BigQuery vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. OpenEdge vs. Sadas Engine

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Google BigQuery vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. OpenEdge vs. Sadas Engine

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Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

Application development environment with integrated database management system

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Rank	#256	Overall
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Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	76.78
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	3.45
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#373	Overall
	#157	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

cloud.google.com/bigquery

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

www.progress.com/openedge

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Google

Microsoft

Progress Software Corporation

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

2014

2010

1984

2006

Current release

V12

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

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

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, with always 3 replicas available

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and groups

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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