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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Hive vs. LokiJS vs. PlanetScale vs. Sadas Engine

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Hive vs. LokiJS vs. PlanetScale vs. Sadas Engine

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS librarydata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopIn-memory JavaScript DBMSScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score1.49
Rank#155  Overall
#72  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#373  Overall
#157  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orghive.apache.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSplanetscale.comwww.sadasengine.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Hometechfort.github.io/­LokiJSplanetscale.com/­docswww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentation
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookPlanetScaleSADAS s.r.l.
Initial release20142012201420202006
Current release3.1.3, April 20228.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree trial version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaJavaScriptGoC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)All OS with a Java VMserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Docker
Linux
macOS
AIX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infovia viewsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
JavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC++
Java
PHP
Python
JavaScriptAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceView functions in JavaScriptyes infoproprietary syntaxno
Triggersyesnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factornoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReduceyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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