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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. MonetDB vs. Newts vs. SingleStore vs. Splice Machine

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. MonetDB vs. Newts vs. SingleStore vs. Splice Machine

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA relational database management system that stores data in columnsTime Series DBMS based on CassandraMySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table typeOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.42
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#135  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score4.02
Rank#74  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#244  Overall
#114  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.monetdb.orgopennms.github.io/­newtswww.singlestore.comsplicemachine.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikidocs.singlestore.comsplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffMonetDB BVOpenNMS GroupSingleStore Inc.Splice Machine
Initial release20142004201420132014
Current releaseDec2023 (11.49), December 20238.5, January 20243.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptCJavaC++, GoJava
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux info64 bit version requiredLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsnoyes infobut no triggers and foreign keysyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
HTTP REST
Java API
Cluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
JavaBash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, in SQL, C, Rnoyesyes infoJava
Triggersyesyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding via remote tablesSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infohash partitioningShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculationsYes, via Full Spark Integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoFine grained access control via users, groups and rolesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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