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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. HarperDB vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. YTsaurus

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.

Cloud-based data warehousing service

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

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Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	0.60
Rank	#244	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	1.37
Rank	#160	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#324	Overall
	#45	Document stores
	#48	Key-value stores

Website

alasql.org

www.harperdb.io

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

ytsaurus.tech

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.harperdb.io/docs

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

HarperDB

IBM

Yandex

Initial release

2014

2017

2014

2023

Current release

3.1, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Node.js

C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux
OS X

hosted

Ubuntu

Data scheme

schema-free

dynamic schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like data manipulation statements

yes

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

PL/SQL, SQL PL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

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, using LMDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access Control Lists

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