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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. OpenSearch vs. PieCloudDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.32
Rank	#289	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.openpie.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Amazon Web Services

OpenPie

Initial release

2014

2021

Current release

2.5.0, January 2023

2.1, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

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

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

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

yes

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.

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.

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

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

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

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

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Specific characteristics

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PieCloudDB, OpenPie's flagship product, is a cutting-edge cloud-native data warehouse....
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Competitive advantages

Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Extreme Elastic: PieCloudDB utilizes a cutting-edge eMPP cloud-native architecture...
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Typical application scenarios

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PieCloudDB is ideal for Data mining applications that require extreme scalability...
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Key customers

Sail-Cloud China Shipbuilding Group Haizhou System Soochow Securities etc.,
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Licensing and pricing models

The OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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