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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Ingres vs. Kdb vs. Trino

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonTrino  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryWell established RDBMSHigh performance Time Series DBMSFast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score7.71
Rank#49  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score4.99
Rank#65  Overall
#36  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreskx.comtrino.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.actian.com/­ingrescode.kx.comtrino.io/­broadcast
trino.io/­docs/­current
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeGitHub
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffActian CorporationKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcTrino Software Foundation
Initial release20141974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s2000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 20032012 info2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL
Current release11.2, May 20223.6, May 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercialcommercial infofree 32-bit versionOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptCqJava
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS infofor devlopment
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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.nono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'depending on connected data-source
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesSQL-like query language (q)yes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript API.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesuser defined functionsyes, depending on connected data-source
Triggersyesyesyes infowith viewsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyhorizontal partitioningdepending on connected data-source
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneIngres ReplicatorSource-replica replicationdepending on connected data-source
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencydepending on connected data-source
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDnodepending on connected data-source
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMVCCyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesdepending on connected data-source
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardrights management via user accountsSQL standard access control
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AlaSQLIngresKdbTrino
Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Trino is the fastest open source, massively parallel processing SQL query engine...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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High performance analtyics and data processing of very large data sets Powerful ANSI...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Performant analytics query engine for data warehouses, data lakes, and data lakehouses...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Trino is widely adopted across the globe as freely-available open source software....
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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33000+ commits in GitHub 8200+ stargazers in GitHub 1200+ pull requests merged in...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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Trino is an open source project and usage is therefore free. Commercial offerings...
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