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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. chDB vs. Transbase

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Name	AlaSQL  Xexclude from comparison	Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL former name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparison	chDB  Xexclude from comparison	Transbase  Xexclude from comparison
Description	JavaScript DBMS library	An online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on Greenplum	An embedded SQL OLAP Engine powered by ClickHouse	A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database model	Document store Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS
Secondary database models			Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.51 Rank #256   Overall #40   Document stores #118   Relational DBMS	Score 0.76 Rank #220   Overall #102   Relational DBMS	Score 0.07 Rank #376   Overall #158   Relational DBMS	Score 0.17 Rank #334   Overall #148   Relational DBMS
Website	alasql.org	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresql	github.com/­chdb-io/­chdb	www.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentation	github.com/­AlaSQL/­alasql	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overview	doc.chdb.io	www.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
Developer	Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff	Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group		Transaction Software GmbH
Initial release	2014	2016	2023	1987
Current release				Transbase 8.3, 2022
License Commercial or Open Source	Open Source MIT-License	commercial	Open Source Apache Version 2.0	commercial free development license
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	yes	no	no
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Implementation language	JavaScript			C and C++
Server operating systems	server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)	hosted	server-less	FreeBSD Linux macOS Solaris Windows
Data scheme	schema-free	yes		yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	no	yes		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.	no	yes		no
Secondary indexes	no	yes		yes
SQL Support of SQL	Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.	yes	Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)	yes
APIs and other access methods	JavaScript API	JDBC ODBC		ADO.NET JDBC ODBC Proprietary native API
Supported programming languages	JavaScript	C Java Perl Python R	Bun C C++ Go JavaScript (Node.js) Python Rust	C C# C++ Java JavaScript Kotlin Objective-C PHP Python
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	yes		yes
Triggers	yes	yes		yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	none	Sharding Implicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	none	yes Implicit feature of the cloud service		Source-replica replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no		no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	none	Immediate Consistency		Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes	yes		yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	yes only for local storage and DOM-storage	ACID		yes
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data		yes		yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage	yes		yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	yes	no		no
User concepts Access control	no	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard		fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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	AlaSQL	Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL former name was HybridDB	chDB	Transbase
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