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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Splunk vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Splunk vs. SQL.JS

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudAnalytics Platform for Big DataPort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSSearch engineSearch engineRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.24
Rank#306  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score0.53
Rank#252  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.splunk.comsql.js.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunksql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAlibabaAmazonSplunk Inc.Alon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release2014201220032012
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercialcommercialcommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaScript
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedhostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoNumeric data and Stringsyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnonoyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nonono infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIHTTP RESTHTTP APIHTTP RESTJavaScript API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJavaC#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyesno
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infomanaged transparently by AWSMulti-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenonono infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess managed on TSDB instance levelauthentication via encrypted signaturesAccess rights for users and rolesno

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