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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. MonetDB vs. OrigoDB vs. PieCloudDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	3.26
Rank	#92	Overall
	#13	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Score	1.72
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#304	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

cloud.google.com/bigtable

www.monetdb.org

origodb.com

www.openpie.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

origodb.com/docs

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Google

MonetDB BV

Robert Friberg et al

OpenPie

Initial release

2014

2015

2004

2009

under the name LiveDB

Current release

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

2.1, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

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)

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

.Net

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in SQL, C, R

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Sharding via remote tables

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

Atomic single-row operations

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

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 based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role based authorization

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

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