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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Hive vs. Oracle vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

Widely used RDBMS

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

alasql.org

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

hive.apache.org

www.oracle.com/database

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.heavy.ai

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

docs.oracle.com/en/database

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Oracle

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2014

2016

2012

1980

2008

Current release

5.10, January 2022

3.1.3, April 2022

23c, September 2023

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++ and CUDA

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

C++
Java
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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