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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Badger vs. FoundationDB vs. H2

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonBadger  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSKey-value storeDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.49
Rank#259  Overall
#40  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score0.24
Rank#312  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#325  Overall
#49  Key-value stores
Score1.07
Rank#188  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#86  Relational DBMS
Score8.22
Rank#50  Overall
#32  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbgithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgergithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.h2database.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerapple.github.io/­foundationdbwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAlibabaDGraph LabsFoundationDBThomas Mueller
Initial release2014201720132005
Current release6.2.28, November 20202.2.220, July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptGoC++Java
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VM
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoNumeric data and Stringsnono infosome layers support typingyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnonononoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nonosupported in specific SQL layer onlyyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIHTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJavaGo.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoin SQL-layer onlyJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions
Triggersyesnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneyesWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencynoneLinearizable consistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoin SQL-layer onlyyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes
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 levelnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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