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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. SAP IQ vs. Transwarp KunDB vs. Vitess

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

OLTP DBMS based on a distributed architecture and highly compatible with MySQL and Oracle

Scalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#344	Overall
	#151	Relational DBMS

Score	0.82
Rank	#209	Overall
	#97	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/kundb

vitess.io

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

vitess.io/docs

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

SAP, formerly Sybase

Transwarp

The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale

Initial release

2014

1994

2013

Current release

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

15.0.2, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Server operating systems

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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS

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

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

ACID at shard level

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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