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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Postgres-XL vs. RisingWave vs. Snowflake vs. SQLite

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonRisingWave  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresA distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQLCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#238  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Score130.36
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score111.41
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.postgres-xl.orgwww.risingwave.com/­databasewww.snowflake.comwww.sqlite.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationdocs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­introdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmlwww.sqlite.org/­docs.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffRisingWave LabsSnowflake Computing Inc.Dwayne Richard Hipp
Initial release20142014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB202220142000
Current release10 R1, October 20181.2, September 20233.46.0  (23 May 2024), May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoPublic Domain
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaScriptCRustC
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
macOS
Docker
Linux
macOS
hostedserver-less
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yes infodynamic column types
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesStandard SQL-types and JSONyesyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.
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.noyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalitynoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yes infodistributed, parallel query executionyesyesyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsUDFs in Python or Javauser defined functionsno
Triggersyesyesnono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningyesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACID infoMVCCnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infovia file-system locks
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.yesnoyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers and RolesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationno

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