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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. HEAVY.AI vs. MySQL vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. TerminusDB

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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

Widely used open source RDBMS

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Website

alasql.org

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

www.mysql.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.heavy.ai

dev.mysql.com/doc

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

SAP

formerly Sybase

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2014

2016

1995

1992

2018

Current release

5.10, January 2022

8.3.0, January 2024

17, July 2015

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++ and CUDA

C and C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

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

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

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

with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

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

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Round robin

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

none

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

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