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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Infobright vs. Postgres-XL vs. SQream DB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#192	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#224	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

www.postgres-xl.org

sqream.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

docs.sqream.com

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

SQream Technologies

Initial release

2014

2005

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2017

Current release

10 R1, October 2018

2022.1.6, December 2022

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

Open Source

Mozilla public license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

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

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

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

distributed, parallel query execution

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

.Net
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
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

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

MVCC

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

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