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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Heroic vs. LevelDB vs. Sadas Engine vs. SAP IQ

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Heroic vs. LevelDB vs. Sadas Engine vs. SAP IQ

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn-oriented
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Score0.49
Rank#259  Overall
#40  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score0.57
Rank#250  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#107  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score0.03
Rank#379  Overall
#156  Relational DBMS
Score3.27
Rank#96  Overall
#50  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroicgithub.com/­google/­leveldbwww.sadasengine.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.html
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlspotify.github.io/­heroicgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mdwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentationhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQ
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffSpotifyGoogleSADAS s.r.l.SAP, formerly Sybase
Initial release20142014201120061994
Current release1.23, February 20218.016.1 SPS04, April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSDcommercial infofree trial version availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaC++C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nonoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononoyes
Triggersyesnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnonehorizontal partitioningshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesnonenoneSAP/Sybase Replication Server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoHadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyes infowith automatic compression on writesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'no
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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