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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Axibase vs. HyperSQL

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

An online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on Greenplum

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.49
Rank	#259	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	0.62
Rank	#241	Overall
	#110	Relational DBMS

Score	0.32
Rank	#288	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.90
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

hsqldb.org

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/analyticdb-for-postgresql/latest/product-introduction-overview

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Axibase Corporation

Initial release

2014

2016

2013

2001

Current release

15585

2.7.2, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

Open Source

based on BSD license

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)

hosted

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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