DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. EsgynDB vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. OrigoDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. EsgynDB vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. OrigoDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.79
Rank	#213	Overall
	#101	Relational DBMS

Score	0.15
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#377	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#54	Document stores
	#21	Object oriented DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

www.esgyn.cn

www.hawkular.org

origodb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

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

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

origodb.com/docs

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Esgyn

Community supported by Red Hat

Robert Friberg et al

Initial release

2014

2016

2015

2014

2009

under the name LiveDB

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++, Java

Java

Server operating systems

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

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

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

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

based on Cassandra

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

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

Write ahead log

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

Role based authorization

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