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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. OpenSearch vs. Warp 10 vs. YDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

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

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.07
Rank	#349	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.35
Rank	#278	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#127	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.warp10.io

github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

opensearch.org/docs/latest

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Microsoft

Amazon Web Services

SenX

Yandex

Initial release

2014

1989

2021

2015

2019

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Java

Server operating systems

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

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

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

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (YQL)

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

Active-passive shard replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

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

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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