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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Lovefield

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Name	AlaSQL  Xexclude from comparison	Alibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparison	Alibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparison	Lovefield  Xexclude from comparison
Description	JavaScript DBMS library	A fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time access	A stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database service	Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript
Primary database model	Document store Relational DBMS	Wide column store	Time Series DBMS	Relational 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 0.31 Rank #297   Overall #11   Wide column stores	Score 0.29 Rank #301   Overall #26   Time Series DBMS	Score 0.33 Rank #286   Overall #131   Relational DBMS
Website	alasql.org	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-store	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdb	google.github.io/­lovefield
Technical documentation	github.com/­AlaSQL/­alasql	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestore	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdb	github.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.md
Developer	Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff	Alibaba	Alibaba	Google
Initial release	2014	2016		2014
Current release				2.1.12, February 2017
License Commercial or Open Source	Open Source MIT-License	commercial	commercial	Open Source Apache 2.0
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	yes	yes	no
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Implementation language	JavaScript			JavaScript
Server operating systems	server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)	hosted	hosted	server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari
Data scheme	schema-free	schema-free	schema-free	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	no	yes	Numeric data and Strings	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	no	no	no
Secondary indexes	no	no	no	yes
SQL Support of SQL	Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.	no	no	SQL-like query language via JavaScript builder pattern
APIs and other access methods	JavaScript API	HTTP API	HTTP REST
Supported programming languages	JavaScript	Java Python	Java	JavaScript
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	no	no	no
Triggers	yes	no	no	Using read-only observers
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	none	Sharding Implicit feature of the cloud service		none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	none	yes Implicit feature of the cloud service		none
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	none	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes	no	no	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	yes only for local storage and DOM-storage	Atomic single-row operations	no	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data		yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage	yes	yes	yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	yes	no	no	yes using MemoryDB
User concepts Access control	no	Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens	Access managed on TSDB instance level	no
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