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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. SAP HANA vs. Splice Machine vs. SQL.JS

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#250	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

splicemachine.com

sql.js.org

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

help.sap.com/hana

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

SAP

Splice Machine

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2014

2010

2014

2012

Current release

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

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

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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

Data scheme

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

none

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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