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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Graph Engine vs. HBase vs. Postgres-XL vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Graph Engine vs. HBase vs. Postgres-XL vs. Vitess

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.61
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#209  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.graphengine.iohbase.apache.orgwww.postgres-xl.orgvitess.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffMicrosoftApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release2014201020082014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2013
Current release2.3.4, January 202110 R1, October 201815.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScript.NET and CJavaCGo
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js).NETLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
macOS
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyes
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.nononoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nonoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIRESTful HTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes infoCoprocessors in Javauser defined functionsyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersyesnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACID infoMVCCACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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