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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Google BigQuery vs. Qdrant vs. SQL.JS vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Google BigQuery vs. Qdrant vs. SQL.JS vs. SQLite

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle BigQuery  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryLarge scale data warehouse service with append-only tablesA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingPort of SQLite to JavaScriptWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score58.10
Rank#19  Overall
#13  Relational DBMS
Score1.28
Rank#167  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Score111.41
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgcloud.google.com/­bigquerygithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
sql.js.orgwww.sqlite.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlcloud.google.com/­bigquery/­docsqdrant.tech/­documentationsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.htmlwww.sqlite.org/­docs.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffGoogleQdrantAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersDwayne Richard Hipp
Initial release20142010202120122000
Current release3.46.0  (23 May 2024), May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoPublic Domain
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptRustJavaScriptC
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedDocker
Linux
macOS
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)server-less
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes infodynamic column types
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleanyesyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonononono
Secondary indexesnonoyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesnoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIRESTful HTTP/JSON APIgRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
JavaScript APIADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
JavaScriptActionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions infoin JavaScriptnono
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneCollection-level replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageno infoSince BigQuery is designed for querying dataACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infovia file-system locks
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level infoGoogle Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)Key-based authenticationnono

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