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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. InfluxDB vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. RDFox vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	77.99
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#308	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#14	RDF stores

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Microsoft

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2014

2013

2010

2017

2014

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

V12

6.0, Septermber 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF schemas

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
Java

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

in enterprise version only

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

yes, with always 3 replicas available

replication via a shared file system

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

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

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Depending on used storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Roles, resources, and access types

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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