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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Hyprcubd vs. Ingres vs. MonetDB vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Hyprcubd vs. Ingres vs. MonetDB vs. SWC-DB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryServerless Time Series DBMSWell established RDBMSA relational database management system that stores data in columnsA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#376  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitealasql.orghyprcubd.com (offline)www.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.monetdb.orggithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.actian.com/­ingreswww.monetdb.org/­Documentation
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffHyprcubd, Inc.Actian CorporationMonetDB BVAlex Kashirin
Initial release20141974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s20042020
Current release11.2, May 2022Dec2023 (11.49), December 20230.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptGoCCC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infotime, int, uint, float, stringyesyes
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 infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableno
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL-like query languageyesyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIgRPC (https).NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesyes, in SQL, C, Rno
Triggersyesnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslySharding via remote tablesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneIngres Replicatornone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental status
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datanoyes infoMVCCyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnotoken accessfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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