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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. HBase vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.71
Rank	#249	Overall
	#35	Document stores
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	38.41
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	2.98
Rank	#111	Overall
	#56	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

hbase.apache.org

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

Technical documentation

github.com/agershun/alasql

hbase.apache.org

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Sybase, SAP

Initial release

2014

2008

1993

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

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

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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.

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

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

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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