DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Infobright vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. SAP HANA vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Infobright vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. SAP HANA vs. Spark SQL

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

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

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	0.96
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	77.99
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	18.96
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

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

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

spark.apache.org/sql

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

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

help.sap.com/hana

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Microsoft

SAP

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2014

2005

2010

2014

Current release

V12

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

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

Linux
Windows

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

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

Java
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

yes, with always 3 replicas available

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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