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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. MarkLogic vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Spark SQL vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. MarkLogic vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Spark SQL vs. Teradata Aster

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonMarkLogic  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryOperational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL databaseA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingPlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
Wide column storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score5.18
Rank#63  Overall
#11  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#7  Search engines
Score4.04
Rank#77  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.progress.com/­marklogicazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tablesspark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.progress.com/­marklogic/­documentationspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffMarkLogic Corp.MicrosoftApache Software FoundationTeradata
Initial release20142001201220142005
Current release11.0, December 20223.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial inforestricted free version is availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++Scala
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infoSchema can be enforcedschema-freeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.noyesnonoyes infoin Aster File Store
Secondary indexesnoyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yes infoSQL92noSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJava API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API infoProprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Python
R
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infovia XQuery or JavaScriptnonoR packages
Triggersyesyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes, utilizing Spark CoreSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.noneyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobsnoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Framework
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transactionoptimistic lockingnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yesyes, with Range Indexesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRole-based access control at the document and subdocument levelsAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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