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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Riak KV vs. Snowflake vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.42
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	3.84
Rank	#76	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	1.56
Rank	#142	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.snowflake.com

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2014

2009

2014

2008

Current release

3.2.0, December 2022

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux
OS X

hosted

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

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

yes, using Riak Security

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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