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

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

A stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database service

An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.

An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiency

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.49
Rank	#259	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	0.24
Rank	#312	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#325	Overall
	#49	Key-value stores

Score	0.05
Rank	#368	Overall
	#37	Time Series DBMS

Score	8.22
Rank	#50	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

greptime.com

www.h2database.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/time-series-database/latest/what-is-tsdb

godoc.org/github.com/dgraph-io/badger

docs.greptime.com

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Alibaba

DGraph Labs

Greptime Inc.

Thomas Mueller

Initial release

2014

2017

2022

2005

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Rust

Java

Server operating systems

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

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

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

HTTP REST

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

Simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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