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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Heroic vs. StarRocks

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Heroic vs. StarRocks

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonStarRocks  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchAn open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics infoForked from Apache Doris
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.81
Rank#255  Overall
#37  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#267  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score1.12
Rank#218  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgspotify.github.io/­heroic/­#!/­indexwww.starrocks.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­agershun/­alasqlspotify.github.io/­heroic/­#!/­docs/­overviewdocs.starrocks.io/­en-us/­latest/­introduction/­StarRocks_intro
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffSpotifyThe Linux Foundation infosince Feb 2023
Initial release201420142020
Current release2.5.3, March 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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CelerData Cloud – Realtime-analytics delivered at the push of a button
Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaC++, Java
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JDBC
MySQL protocol
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJava
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functions
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range and hash)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRole based access control and fine grained access rights
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AlaSQLHeroicStarRocks
Specific characteristicsStarRocks is an open-source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables...
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Competitive advantagesOne of the challenges of data lakehouse is to provide fast and interactive query...
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Typical application scenariosReal-time analytics Fraud detection System monitoring analytics User facing analytics...
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Key customersTrip.com Yoozoo Zepp health Airbnb Lenovo Tencent
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Market metrics4.4k stars, 223 contributors on GitHub 971 members on Slack *a s of April 2023:
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache-2.0 license Pay-as-you-go BYOC cloud service by CelerData
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