DBMS > AlaSQL vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Riak TS vs. SAP HANA vs. ScyllaDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Riak TS vs. SAP HANA vs. ScyllaDB

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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

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	0.49
Rank	#259	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	2.10
Rank	#126	Overall
	#61	Relational DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#308	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	45.84
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	5.27
Rank	#67	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Website

alasql.org

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

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.scylladb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.heavy.ai

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

help.sap.com/hana

docs.scylladb.com

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

SAP

ScyllaDB

Initial release

2014

2016

2015

2010

2015

Current release

5.10, January 2022

3.0.0, September 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++ and CUDA

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux

Linux
OS X

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

cluster global secondary indices

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

yes, limited

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

compatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

SQLScript, R

yes, Lua

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

yes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

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

in-memory tables

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Access rights for users can be defined per object

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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